Virus Scare

New Delhi: Amidst the pall of gloom and worry over Omicron, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath showed a silver lining on Thursday as she said the new variant is expected...

Bhubaneswar: The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is five times more transmissible than the Delta variant and those infected will be kept in separate wards in hospitals, Public Health Director Niranjan...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID toll in Odisha touched 8,440 on Thursday with one more patient succumbing to the infection. According to the Health Department, a 90-year-old woman of Bhubaneswar died of...

Bhubaneswar: A day after reporting above 200 new COVID cases, Odisha on Thursday saw 173 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The state had...

New Delhi: The Omicron variant infects around 70 times faster than delta and the original Covid-19 strain, though the severity of illness is likely to be much lower, according to...

New Delhi: The classic symptoms of COVID-19, like cough, runny nose, high fever or sore threat are missing in Omicron patients. The main complaints are severe headache, body pain, exhaustion,...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID toll in Odisha touched 8,439 on Wednesday with two more patients succumbing to the infection. According to the Health Department, the deaths have been reported from Keonjhar...

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of four days, the daily COVID caseload crossed 200 on Wednesday with 218 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The...

New Delhi: India’s Covid Task Force chief Dr VK Paul said that country should have vaccine platforms that are “adaptable quickly” with changing nature of the coronavirus variants in light...

Mumbai: Kareena Kapoor Khan and Amrita Arora got themselves tested for COVID after Seema Khan, wife of Sohail Khan, was found infected on December 11. She was the first to...