COVID-19 News Updates

The new test card which has been developed under the collaboration of RMRC and IMGENEX India Pvt. Ltd, Bhubaneswar will be available in the market within two months, informed Dr. Sujay Singh, CEO, IMGENEX. 

According to the Central government's CoWIN portal, a total 1,02,90,374 precaution doses have been administered among frontline workers, healthcare workers and people above 60 years of age so far

According to scientists from the Wuhan University in China, NeoCov can penetrate human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2

Therefore, we need to wait for some more days until the graph comes down completely,” further added Mishra.

A total of 2,74,43,759 samples have been tested, 61,635 in the last 24 hours, in the State so far. The daily test positivity rate stood at 8.2 percent.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik advised the rapid response teams (RRTs) and field staff to keep a track on the health condition of those patients who are in home quarantine. 

About the prevalence of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in India, he said, 1,292 cases of the latest variant of concern were found on genome sequencing in December which rose to 9,672 in January.

At a time when the entire country has been grappling with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-1, the health department in Odisha on Thursday informed the State currently has no data on patients infected by the new strain.

The DCGI approval came after the SEC on COVID-19 of the CDSCO on January 19 recommended granting regular market approval to the SII's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for use in adult population subject to certain conditions.

Today, the State registered 5,901 infections and eight fatalities pushing the cumulative positive tally to 12,31,169 and the death toll to 8,550.

The active caseload has reported a marginal decline at 22,02,472 which constitute 5.46 per cent of the country's total positive cases.

n terms of fatalities, three deaths were reported from Sundargarh district while one each from Balasore, Khordha (Bhubaneswar), Keonjhar, Koraput and Rayagada districts, informed the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 72,906,511 and 876,052, according to the CSSE.

However, the study has a limitation of lesser participants in the unvaccinated group and the shorter window period post infection. "This could be the important reason for the low immune response specifically in the unvaccinated individuals against Omicron," it said.

The virus uses the spike protein to latch on to and enter the cells it infects. The Omicron spike protein has 37 mutations that distinguish it from the first SARS-CoV-2 isolates in 2020.