Virus Scare

Cuttack: Nurses of Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) here on Monday gheraoed director Dr Lalatendu Sarangi's office demanding quarantine facility on the hospital premises. The agitating nurses alleged that...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha mounted to 6859 on Monday with 245 more cases being detected in the last 24 hours. With 23 coronavirus-related deaths and 4743 recoveries, the...

Gajapati: A nursing home at Paralakhemundi in Gajapati district was sealed for seven days on Monday after three staffers tested COVID-19 positive, chief district medical officer (CDMO) informed. They are...

Berhampur: The Ganjam administration on Monday announced shutdown in Notified Area Council (NAC) area of Chhatrapur for seven days to contain the spread of COVID-19. District collector Vijay Amruta Kulange...

Cuttack: Two among the seven cases detected in Cuttack districts in the last 24 hours belong to Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits. The civic body identified the two patients as a...

Dhaka: The Bangladesh Defence Secretary, Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Dhaka hospital on Monday morning, a government official confirmed to the media. Chowdhury was admitted to...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday received the first consignment of Remdesivir medicine for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Informing the media, additional chief secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Pradipta...

Beijing: A Chinese pharmaceutical company has claimed that an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by it has shown positive results in human trials. The early results from tests suggested that the...

Bhadrak: The COVID-19 tally in Bhadrak district touched 229 on Monday with two more persons testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. According to a tweet by...

Ganjam: Two more COVID-19 patients succumbed to the infection in Odisha on Monday, taking the toll to 23. According to the Health Department sources, these deaths have been reported from...