Tag: Corona

New Delhi: The nationwide lockdown – the fourth phase of which ends on May 31 – is likely to be extended beyond this date with more relaxations in lockdown 5.0 as most Indian states are in favour of continuing it for two more weeks, sources said on Friday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah conveyed the […]

New Delhi: The finance ministry is not in favour of increasing goods and services tax rates on non-essential items in the next month’s meeting of the GST Council, despite depressed revenue collections due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. If goods and services tax (GST) rates are increased on non-essential items, […]

New Delhi: Coronavirus cases in India saw a record single-day jump of 9,304 cases on Thursday pushing the total tally to 2,16,919, while the death toll climbed to 6,075 with 260 new fatalities, according to the Union health ministry. India stood seventh among the nations worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, […]

New York: Besides making use of personal protective equipment, healthcare workers need to avoid procedures that irritate airways and provoke violent coughing and try to reduce exposure to infectious aerosol while treating Covid-19 patients, say, scientists, including one of Indian-origin. If possible, health care providers should stay six feet away from infected patients, especially when […]

New York: Researchers have developed a surface coating, which, when painted on common objects like doorknobs or light switches, can inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in one hour, the virus that causes COVID-19. According to the study, published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the results of the tests have been outstanding. When the coating is […]

Bhubaneswar: The State on Saturday reported 2613 more cases of recovery from Covid-19 infection taking the overall recoveries to 262031. As per data released by the Health and Family Welfare Department, Khordha logged 342 recoveries, the maximum in the State in the last 24 hours. The virus recovery cases also jumped above 200-mark in two […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is preparing a database of senior citizens and people aged above 45 years of age and suffering from comorbidities who will undergo inoculation from March 1 in the next round of COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, chief of the Directorate of Medical Education & Training (DMET) CBK Mohanty said on Thursday. Mohanty said that […]