COVID-19 News Updates

The State government of Odisha on Friday announced to introduce Covaxin for inoculation of people aged 18 years and above in the district of Ganjam. Manufactured by the Bharat Biotech will be soon rolled out for vaccinating people in Ganjam district including the Berhampur Municipal Corporation area from the month of July.

Director of Directorate of Medical Education and Training (DMET) Dr. CBK Mohanty cautioned people to be alert and adhere to the Covid guidelines strictly to avoid the third wave of Covid-19

A day after Odisha government curtailed the mass vaccination programme in the State in the wake of acute shortage of doses, around 9.43 lakh jabs of Covishield vaccines manufactured by the Serum Institute of India reached the State on Friday.

The teams will monitor the overall implementation of COVID-19 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations, COVID appropriate behaviour and its enforcement.

Even though the new Delta plus variant of Covid-19 virus has raised fears about another wave of the pandemic due to its highly infectious nature, the Odisha Health Department on Friday advised people to shun fears as the State has not yet detected a single case of the new variant since May.

The vaccine is 85 percent effective against severe/critical disease and demonstrated protection against hospitalisation and death from the deadly coronavirus.

BMC will supply essentials and ensure medical requirements for the inhabitants in the containment zones.

India on Friday became the third country, after the US and Brazil, to cross four lakh deaths due to Covid-19 pandemic. There were 853 deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

Odisha reported 46 fatalities due to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours taking the virus toll to 4,109 even as 3,222 people tested positive for the virus during the period pushing the cumulative positive tally to 91,6109 in the State.

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 182.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.95 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

Sputnik Light, the single-dose Covid-19 vaccine, can submit Russian safety data for approval in India, Dr Reddy's Laboratories said on Thursday.

The government of Odisha seemed to have failed in proper management of Covid pandemic in the 10 category B districts where the infection test positivity rate has not reduced below 5 per cent despite enforcement of lockdown over a period of over a month and half. An opinion poll conducted by Odishatv.in has revealed such startling assumptions by the people in the State.

Health experts claim that four out of 10 COVID patients are getting cured by the ECMO treatment

The BJD VP said that desperate race to be on the top and the attempt to cling onto past glory seem to have resulted in such factual death data manipulation

A police personnel was suspended on Thursday for brutally kicking a minor tea seller at Kesura area under Sahid Nagar police station in the Capital City on Tuesday