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Commisionerate Police cracked down on violators for not following the lockdown guidelines despite regular awareness.

Twin Cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar experienced heavy rainfall accompanied by strong wind & lightning activity on Tuesday affecting normal life.

Heavy rainfall and thunderstorm activity was witnessed in Puri. The whole city including the Puri Srimandir came under thick dark clouds as the weather changed suddenly.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has affected us like nothing else in our lifetimes and it has taught us that humanity is above everything else.

With the lives of millions already impaired due to the scare of the deadly pandemic, another cause of concern taking a toll on the health is the fear of Black Fungus infection among recovered COVID patients.

For the last few days, India has been witnessing a declining trend in the daily COVID-19 cases. However, the infection count is still over 3 lakh. At least 3.29 lakh persons tested positive in the country in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall tally of COVID-19 cases to over 2.26 crore.

Odisha witnessed a marginal drop in new positive cases as daily infections dropped to below 10,000 after five days.

India’s premier healthcare institution, the AIIMS has come up with guidelines on Covid management during home isolation. These guidelines were outlined at a recent training session for experts from tertiary care centres across the country.

A ‘kalash’ yatra was held at Krushnachai village in Sheragada of Ganjam district despite COVID19 restrictions are in place. The procession was organised for the inauguration of a temple in the village.

Private hospitals in Bhubaneswar will have to wait further and may not be able to vaccinate people as of now. There are not enough vaccine doses available to be provided to the private hospitals to vaccinate people. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner, Prem Chandra Chaudhary said that the BMC received 1.5 lakh doses for which booking has already been done. Once BMC receives more vaccine, it will be provided to the private hospitals, he added.

While the country is grappling with the deadly second wave of COVID19, these pictures surfaced from Badaun, UP. This is a funeral procession of religious leader, Kaji Abdul Hamid Mohammad Salimul Kadri.

Disturbing incident inside the Ananda Bazaar of Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri. A servitor was injured after being allegedly attacked by another fellow servitor on the temple premises on Monday.

The Sub-Divisional Medical Officer of Patnagarh in Bolangir district, who was caught on camera seeking bribe in Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital, has been suspended.

Black fungus infection has been reportedly detected in a few COVID-19 survivors in Odisha’s capital city. The fatal Black Fungus infection also known as Mucormycosis was reportedly found in some patients in Bhubaneswar.

Unprecedented rush seen at COVID19 vaccination centres across Odisha. With vaccination underway in the State, people in huge numbers gathered at vaccine centres to get their doses. Amid such rush, social distancing norms went for a toss raising concerns. From Puri to Bhadrak, serpentine queues were seen with people turning up at vaccination centres in large numbers.