Virus Scare

New Delhi: The loss of education has perhaps been the biggest impact of COVID-19 on the whole world. Just when educational institutions were opening up globally, the fear of Omicron...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha touched 8,434 on Sunday with one more death being confirmed in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Department, a 65-year-old woman from...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha saw a drop in daily COVID caseload as 160 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours against 173 the previous day. The state had...

The United Kingdom could face a large wave of Omicron infections from January next year if restrictions on social gatherings are not imposed, a new scientific study warned on Saturday....

Dibrugarh: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in Dibrugarh, Assam has designed a testing kit that will be able to detect Omicron in two hours, news agency ANI reported....

New Delhi: The new more infectious Omicron strain may not bode well for the younger, still unvaccinated, population under the age of 18. Researchers fear that youngsters may be at...

New Delhi: Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect COVID-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light. The discovery by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto Prefectural...

New Delhi: Delhi reported its second case of Omicron as a traveller, who returned from Zimbabwe, tested positive for this highly-mutated variant of COVID-19 on Saturday. The 34-year-old man has...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha touched 8,433 on Saturday with two more deaths being confirmed in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Department, the deaths have been...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha saw a drop in daily COVID caseload as 173 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours against 286 the previous day. The state had...