COVID-19 News Updates

The study conducted by the online community platform LocalCircles received 12,810 responses from citizens -- 67 per cent men and 33 per cent women across 301 districts

BMC on Wednesday declared a residential apartment, Rajendra Vihar Apartment, in the Forest Park area of the Capital city as ‘containment zone’ following the detection of several Covid-19 positive cases.

Dr Guleria warned that, at the current time, it is premature to say the pandemic has become endemic and we still need to be extremely cautious as we don't know how will the virus behave in coming times.

With 59,48,360 vaccine doses administered in the last 24 hours, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage crossed the 92 crore mark as per provisional reports till 7 a.m. on Wednesday. This has been achieved through 89,35,354 sessions.

The civic body said the modifications have been made to obviate some confusion arisen in the earlier order. 

WHO & an independent group of experts are scheduled to meet next week to carry out the risk/benefit assessment and come to a final decision whether to grant Emergency Use Listing to Covaxin.

People in certain areas across Odisha still face lot of difficulties in getting themselves inoculated for various reasons

The active caseload is presently 2,52,902, which is the lowest in 201 days. Active cases presently constitute 0.75 per cent of the country's total positive cases

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 43,852,204 and 703,278, according to the CSSE.

Re-infections can and have happened, even shortly after recovery. And they will become increasingly common as immunity wanes and new SARS-CoV-2 variants arise.

A large number of people had gathered at Gurudijhatia primary health centre today morning to receive vaccine shots. The crowd scrambled to get the jab as there was short supply of the vaccine doses. 

There are less chances of Covid-19 infection proliferating during the winter season, chief of DMET (Directorate of Medical Education and Training), CBK Mohanty said this on Monday (Oct 4).

407 persons, including 74 in the 0-18 year age group tested positive for Covid-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours. Similarly, the State recorded six deaths due to virus taking the cumulative death toll to 8,220. 

The daily positivity rate was 2.10 per cent after remaining below 3 per cent for the last 35 days and below 5 per cent for 118 consecutive days now.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 43,682,974 and 701,169, according to the CSSE.