COVID-19 News Updates

Odisha on Thursday saw 42 deaths due to Covid-19, the State's highest single-day fatalities in the pandemic taking the death toll to 2873.

After waiting for more than two months, with no relatives coming to pick even the 'asthi' (Potful ash and bone remnants), Karnataka revenue minister, R. Ashoka has performed last rites of over 1,000 'Asthis' in triveni sangama in Srirangapattana here.

The allotment of MDM rice shall be lifted by the MDM Transport Contractor as per the need. follow the terms & conditions of the agreement.

A steady rise in the infection cases of Black Fungus also known as Mucormycosis has evolved as a major headache for the State government at a time when the daily spike in the Covid cases is still above 8 thousand. The situation is even more alarming due to the absence of sufficient stock of the most important treatment against the disease, i.e. the administration of liposomal Amphotericin-B injection.

In the first wave in Odisha, deaths with no co-morbidities had been 30% of the total in the peak month. 'Happy Hypoxia' has been the prime reason behind such a higher order of mortalities this time around

Once included, they will be eligible for the pension and the Covid orphans will get Rs 500 a month as pension under the new section, MBPY-COVID.

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik said though many states have floated global tenders for vaccine procurement, the global vaccine manufacturers are looking forward to the Union Government for the clearances and assurances.

China, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand may turn into "hotspots" favourable for bats that carry coronaviruses, and conditions in these places could become ripe for the disease to jump from bats to humans, finds a new study.

Globally available Covid 19 vaccines can now be launched in India without the requirement of post approval clinical trials and testing every batch of the vaccine.

Even though the peak of the Covid-19 second wave is already over, Odisha has started preparations to tackle a possible third wave outbreak of the pandemic

Experts from the ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research and the Indian Council of Medical Research, on Wednesday, slammed the government for poor planning of the home-grown vaccine production and deployment, as a result of which "India doesn't have enough vaccines to go around".

All the positives are asymptomatic and stable now. They have been kept in isolation in the jail. However, if any medical emergency arises, they will be immediately shifted to the nearby designated Covid hospital.

A private hospital in the Capital City has started antibody cocktail therapy which is believed to  provide the much needed succor to high risk Covid-19 patients

A day after reporting the lowest cases since April 8, India witnessed a slight increase in Covid numbers with 1,32,788 new infections reported in 24 hours and 3,207 more people succumbed to the pandemic, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Wednesday.

Odisha on Wednesday registered its highest ever single-day Covid-19 toll with as many as 40 people succumbing to the virus while 8,399 new cases were reported across the State in the last 24 hours.