News from Odisha

Ahead of the impending cyclone Yaas which is likely to hit Odisha coast later next week, administration in the coastal Odisha districts of Jajpur and Kendrapara held preparatory meetings to deal with the situation, on Friday.

With Odisha bracing for a cyclone in a few days time, its high time people should maintain extra caution in health matters during the ongoing second wave of the Covid pandemic. The Director of the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar Laxmidhar Sahu has urged people to avoid getting exposed in the rain and windy conditions as much as possible during the cyclone as it may increase risk of infections due to a decrease in immunity inside the body. 

Odisha’s biodiversity has a major contribution to climate change mitigation because the emissions due to the metal & mining industry need to be absorbed and contained.

Stressing that the positivity rate is more important than the number of positive cases, the State Director of Health services Bijay Mohapatra on Friday said that the the positivity rate in Odisha is not high as compared to the number of testing.

Residents of the State Capital of Odisha on Friday experienced the Zero Shadow Day, a rare celestial event that is generally witnessed only two times a year. Zero Shadow, which essentially means that there would not be a shadow of any object or beings when the sun is at its peak in the sky.

The second wave of Covid pandemic has now started to make its presence feel in jails across Odisha. In the span of some weeks, prisons in the State have fallen victim to the resurgence in the virus cases putting the government on toes.

Bhubaneswar enjoys wide reputation as a greatly liveable Indian city with amiable people, soothing afternoon breeze, tasty drinking water and satisfactory air, road and rail connectivity. The city should grow to greater heights as a more planned city with cleaner roads, cleaner marketplaces and healthy public space.

The municipal authorities of the city will stop the drive-in and door-to-door vaccination initiative from May 22.

A total of 7,012 cases were reported from quarantine centres while the rest 5,511 were local transmission cases.

The brewing of a fresh low pressure in North Andaman Sea and its adjoining East-central Bay of Bengal and its likely intensification into a cyclonic storm has trigerred major concerns for crop cultivators amid this pandemic crisis.

The Odisha Government on Thursday issued fresh recommendations for the vaccination drive for Covid-19 in the State in which incolulation of all the lactating women has been allowed by the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC)

A man died at District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) in Keonjhar while his wife's health condition remained critical after the couple attempted to commit suicide by consuming pesticide grieving the death of their 12-day-old daughter.

Odisha government on Thursday discontinued convalescent plasma therapy as a recommended treatment for COVID19.

Eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal are likely to face the brunt of the upcoming storm next week as the storm is expected to make landfall by May 26

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a liquid medical oxygen plant facility at Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati (MKCG) Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur on Thursday.