Virus Scare

New Delhi: The Central government on Tuesday issued new rules for international travellers following a high-level meeting to review public health preparedness with states and UTs in view of 'Omicron'....

New Delhi: India will draw its comprehensive policy on the third COVID-19 vaccine dose in the next two to three weeks. An expert group has been working on formulating a...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha touched 8,501 on Tuesday with two more deaths being confirmed in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Department, two deaths have been...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha saw a marginal rise in daily COVID caseload with 228 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The state had reported 197 new...

Hyderabad: National Award-Winning choreographer and television judge K Shiva Shankar, popularly known as Shiva Shankar Master, died of COVID-19 complications at a private hospital here on Sunday evening. He was...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha touched 8,409 on Monday with two more deaths being confirmed in the last 24 hours. Health Department sources said that an 80-year-old man of...

Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID caseload in Odisha remained below 200 for the second consecutive day on Monday with 197 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24...

New Delhi: American pharmaceutical firm Moderna said on Sunday that it could reformulate the vaccine against the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in early 2022. “We should know about the ability...

New Delhi: The Centre has granted approval for the commercial exports of Bharat Biotech-manufactured COVID vaccine, Covaxin, in light of adequate stocks of the vaccine available with the states, reported...

Geneva: The big question around Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa is, can PCR tests can detect the infection? The World Health Organisation (WHO) says while...