COVID-19 News Updates

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,231,809 cases.

The home secretary said states and union territories, on a regular basis, should closely monitor case positivity, hospital, ICU beds occupancy of every district falling under their jurisdiction.

Odisha currently has 4,747 active cases, while as many as 10,27,108 patients, including 334 on Wednesday, have recovered from the highly infectious disease.

The active caseload stands at 1,60,989, lowest in 243 days.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 45,703,865 and 741,231, according to the CSSE.

The campaign coordinated by The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), based on a global Call to Action to protect women, children and adolescents.

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation took note of a newspaper article published on Wednesday about issuance of fake COVID positive certificate to a person by GenX Diagnostics located in Sahid Nagar area in the city. 

The surge in number of cases in some of the countries could be attributed to complacency in adhering to Covid appropriate behaviour, genetic mutation of the virus and  the commencement of the fall season (autumn) in October

"Covid-19 is "the eighth-highest killer of kids in this age group over the past year,"

A decrease of 1,155 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech is expected to submit the data by this weekend.

The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech had applied to the WHO on April 19 for Covaxin's Emergency Use Listing

The report was launched by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), an independent body set up by the WHO and the World Bank in 2018 to prepare for pandemics, in Berlin

The active caseload stands at 1,63,816, which is the lowest in 241 days.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,189,774 cases.