COVID-19 News Updates

Odisha Chief Secretary Suresh Mohapatra said that Covid guidelines in the State have been designed to control the spread of the infections without disrupting the livelihoods of people.

The ILS conducted genome sequencing of 249 samples between January 9 and 16 from which the traces of Omicron strain was found in 145 samples.

Other than Omicron variant, the kit can also detect variants like Alpha, Beta, Gama and Delta of SARS-CoV2, claim the manufacturers.

We have not reached such a situation where there is a need for imposing lockdown or shutdown, says Bijay Mohapatra today

Vendors have expressed their resentment over the shifting of the vegetable market to Unit-1 High School ground

India on Wednesday reported 2,82,970 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, which is a rise of over 18 per cent from the previous day's count.

There has been an 0.79 per cent increase in Omicron cases since Tuesday, the ministry said.

Khurda district, which includes the state capital Bhubaneswar reported the highest number of new cases at 4,347, followed by Sundargarh at 1,219, Cuttack at 898 and Sambalpur at 390.

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (37,618,271 infections and 486,761 deaths), followed by Brazil (23,229,851 infections and 621,803 deaths).

The prevalence of long Covid among patients with mild/moderate infection was 23.4% as compared to 62.5% in severe/critical cases. The most common long Covid symptom is fatigue (64.8%) followed by cough (32.4%), the study found.

The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country have reached 158.74 crore so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

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In a letter to states and UTs on Monday, Additional Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Arti Ahuja advised them to pay attention to this aspect immediately and increase the testing in a strategic manner keeping in view the trend of case positivity in specific areas.

The next phase of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from March 1 for people over 60 years of age and those aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.

BMC said that the decision to seal the premises of the Courts has been taken in the larger public interest and to contain further spread of the virus