COVID-19 News Updates

She will be fine. But it is going to take a while because of her age. And also, COVID-19 takes seven days , Lata Mangeshkar's niece Rachana said.

The infected students have been kept under isolation and necessary medical assistance is being provided to them

The active cases comprise 2.29 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 96.36 per cent, the ministry said.

Out of the 7,071 cases, 4,128 were detected in quarantine while 2,943 are local contact cases

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (35,707,727 infections and 483,936 deaths), followed by Brazil (22,529,183 infections and 620,251 deaths).

With a rapid surge in Covid cases in Odisha, these self-testing kits, which were lying unsold at the chemists until recently, are now being sold like hot cakes.

The advisory also stated that asymptomatic individuals in community settings and contacts of confirmed cases of Covid-19 need not undergo testing unless the patient is identified as high risk based on age and comorbidities. 

A scientist in Cyprus has claimed that his team has identified a new Covid variant being dubbed as 'Deltacron.'

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on Monday issued a slew of new regulations to decentralise markets and Haat areas to reduce crowding of people amid a sharp surge in the cases of COVID-19 in the State Capital city. 

Medical experts, on the other hand, have pointed out that the benefits of the drug outweigh the potential risks it may have in the case of high-risk patients.

The government has asked to earmark different categories of beds in private hospitals and to ensure that charges levied by them is reasonable. The states have been asked to upgrade the beds to oxygen-supported beds wherever possible at Covid Care Centres and to train community volunteers in basic care and management there.

All states and Union Territories are advised to keep a daily watch on the situation of the total number of active cases, cases under home isolation, the number of hospitalized cases, cases on oxygen beds, ICU beds and on ventilatory support, he wrote.

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The Odisha government has placed an order to procure five lakh Omicron testing kits, OmiSure, informed Girish Krishnamurthy, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd. (TATA MD) on Monday.

Recently several Union Ministers tested positive for Covid. These include Mahendra Nath Pandey, Raosaheb Patil Danve, Bharti Pawar, Nityanand Rai, and S.P. Singh Baghel.