COVID-19 News Updates

The Twin City Commissionerate Police has introduced ‘E-Pass’ system in order to facilitate movement of the employees of private company/organisations during the Covid-19 lockdown

The advisory committee will be responsible for suggesting measures to the State government in the fight against the virus, vaccination and handle the possible third wave of the pandemic

AIIMS also suggested to "Immediately isolate yourself from others" if fever, dry cough, tiredness and loss of taste or smell, irritation in throat, headache, body ache, diarrhoea, rash on skin and redness is observed.

Those having symptoms or suspect infection can dial 1929 to avail the doorstep sample collection facility

NTPC has set up a 500-bed Covid health centre at Sundargarh in Odisha where 20 ventilators have been provided.

The rapid spread of the second wave of Coronavirus infection in the Twin City has hit the Commissionerate Police hard with it’s over 210 personnel getting infected with the virus

With Odisha slowly running out of its critical healthcare resources for the treatment of patients as Covid cases continue to rise, the State Government on Saturday constituted 4 special teams for thorough verification of ICU wards in the Twin Cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, two of the highest Covid hit regions

For the fourth time in the last five days, India's daily COVID-19 recoveries outnumbered new cases, taking the total recoveries to 2,04,32,898, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.

A team of US researchers led by an Indian American scientist has reported the first instance of Covid-19 triggering a rare recurrence of potentially serious blood clots in patient's arms.

As many as 68 prisoners tested positive for Covid 19 at the Jharsuguda sub-jail on Saturday, jail authorities said.

Scientists have decoded genes that put certain people at high chances of contracting the virus and developing severe Covid-19.

Witnessing a decline, India on Saturday reported 3,26,098 new Covid cases and 3,890 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

Putting technology to use for better COVID management and quick transfer of patients to the Dedicated COVID Hospitals (DCH) and COVID Care Centres (CCC), the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started GPS tracking of ambulances.

Odisha on Saturday witnessed a concerning figure in the single-day covid cases with 11, 805 more people testing positive for the contagious disease in last 24 hours taking the cumulative virus infection count to 6,00,492.

The Odisha government on Friday floated a global e-tender for procurement of 3.8 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines from leading manufacturers across the world.