Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) declared some localities in Dumduma area of the city as containment zone on Saturday. BMC Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary said six residents of Subash Nagar...

Bhubaneswar: While the tally of COVID-19 cases in Odisha went up to 4856 on Saturday, the spike in the number of local contact cases has become a matter of grave...

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the use of oral antiviral drug Favipiravir for clinical trials in the treatment of mild to moderate cases of...

Cuttack: Cuttack Municipal Corporation on Saturday reported one new corona positive case, taking the total number of persons affected by the virus in the city to 26. Over all, Cuttack...

New Delhi: India registered another highest single-day spike of 14,516 COVID-19 cases on Saturday. With the day’s new cases, the national tally has gone up to 3,95,048 while a total...

Puri: A 60-year old man succumbed to COVID-19 in a hospital in Puri district on Saturday, raising Odisha's death toll due to the infection to 12. The Health Department tweeted...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 179 new corona positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the affected tally to 4,856 on Saturday. The I&PR Department tweeted that of the 179 new...

Ganjam: Ganjam district reported 57 new corona positive cases on Saturday, taking the district's tally to 853. Of the new cases, four were reported from Surada,  two each from Aska,...

New Delhi: The Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has sanctioned a $750 million ‘COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme’ to help India strengthen its response to the adverse...

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s office-cum-residence was shut on Friday after an employee’s relative tested positive for COVID-19. “The entire premises at CM’s home office ‘Krishna’ (on Kumarakrupa Road,...