COVID-19 News Updates

Even as people across the State are making a beeline in front of various healthcare facilities to get them vaccinated, health workers in tribal-dominated Rayagada district are often greeted by empty houses with people deserting their villages fearing vaccines. 

Nearly 15 entities are eyeing approval to provide online appointment booking for vaccination, including Paytm, Infosys and MakeMyTrip, Sharma said.

Critical Covid-19 patients may no longer have to be referred to other states for the life-saving Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) treatment as two such machines will soon be installed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar.

CoviFind is highly effective in individuals with mid to high viral load, especially in detecting infection in the case of individuals more likely to transmit the disease to others.

Covaxin manufacturer Bharat Biotech said its service provider, IQVIA, has started final statistical analysis.

The Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) of Odisha government has clarified that all agriculture, horticulture and allied activities will remain fully functional without any restricted time limit as has been allowed for essential activities in all the districts of the State during the lockdown imposed in wake of the second wave of Covid-19.

India earlier registered highest fatalities due to Covid-19 on May 21 with 4,529 deaths, which crossed both the US and Brazil's record deaths in 24 hours. It surpassed US' 4,468 deaths reported on January 12, 2021; and 4,211 in Brazil on April 6, 2021.

With experts expressing concerns on the risk to children in the event of a third outbreak of the Covid pandemic in the country, the government has come out with comprehensive guidelines for the management of COVID-19 among children. 

Odisha recorded 6,097 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. With this, the positive tally in the State surged to 8,37,226, the State I&PR Department informed

The Odisha government has decided to vaccinate staff and employees of medicine shops across the State on a priority basis.

As per the data with the State Health Department, when in the first wave the number of children infected by the novel coronavirus stood below 4 per cent, the proportion in the second wave has grown to a little over 5 per cent

COVID-19 induced lockdown has resulted in a massive loss of income for priests who are mostly dependent on the donation from devotees

The unlock blueprint is being prepared. Districts with a weekly positive rate of below 5% for three weeks have been grouped into one cluster. The cluster approach and risk assessment strategy indicate major relaxations for districts like Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday sanctioned another Rs 20 crore to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for the smooth management of Covid-19 pandemic fighting measures.

With funds and prayers pouring in, critically ill Abhisek Mohapatra was finally flown to Kolkata in an air ambulance for advance ECMO treatment from the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here on Wednesday.