Tag: Coronavirus Scare

Bhubaneswar: The Health department of Odisha on Saturday issued toll-free numbers to facilitate people inform about suspected cases of novel Coronavirus infection for quick action. The move comes a day after the authorities laid out necessary precautionary measures to be followed in case of detection of the fatal viral disease that has triggered panic after […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid coronavirus scare, Union Health Secretary reviewed preparedness to deal with the situation with health secretaries of all the States through video conferencing today. Attending the review meeting, Odisha Health Secretary Nikunja Bihari Dhal informed the Centre that the State government is all prepared to deal with the situation. “Novel Coronavirus which started in […]

Bhubaneswar: As the situation still remains grim following the outbreak of novel Coronavirus in China, the blood samples of a youth from Odisha who recently returned from China has been collected and sent for tests to ICMR in Delhi. According to reports, the youth identified as Sambit Nayak from Puri Balisahi was working in a […]

Phulbani: Sparking Novel Coronavirus scare in Odisha, a medical student of Phulbani on Friday complained of suffering from cold and cough after returning home from China on January 11 keeping authorities on toes. Suspecting infection, the medical student who pursues MBBS in China wrote a letter to Kandhamal Collector and the Chief District Medical Officer […]

Mumbai: There have been no cases of coronavirus recorded in Mumbai yet, but a few Bollywood actors are taking no chances. Stars like Ranbir Kapoor and Sunny Leone have been spotted at the airport recently, with their faces covered in masks. Ranbir was clicked with his mask on at Mumbai airport by celebrity photographer Viral […]

New Delhi: Air India said another special flight to evacuate Indians from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China would depart from the Delhi airport on Saturday afternoon, hours after the first flight with 324 passengers landed in the Indian capital . Wuhan is the epicentre of novel coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 200 persons in […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid claiming 259 lives and affecting as many as 11,791 others in China, five suspected cases of the deadly novel Coronavirus has so far been reported in Odisha. According to sources, apart from a 21-year-old China-returning medical student from Phulbani who was shifted to the isolation ward of the special Coronavirus ward at SCB […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has set up a special task force to monitor the situation in view of a novel coronavirus outbreak in China while the Paradip Port Trust has stopped the crew of seven cargo ships from disembarking, officials said on Friday. Five people are currently under the scanner in the state as they […]

Beijing: The death toll in China’s coronavirus has jumped to 304 with the number of cases climbing to 14,380, Chinese health officials said on Sunday. By the end of Saturday, a total of 304 people had died of the disease and 14,380 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection had been reported in 31 provincial-level regions […]

Imphal/Aizawl: Amid fears over the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) across the country, Manipur and Mizoram governments have imposed restrictions on imports of foodstuffs and other items from China, Myanmar and other South-East Asian countries, officials said on Friday. Officials in Imphal said that the Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department has issued notification restricting on production, […]

Balasore: While the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in China, miles away in Odisha the fear of the deadly disease is clearly evident from the case of two families who were refused to cremate their kin who died in a gas leakage in Japan. Sheikh Mantaz of Kasaba Kamarda area in Balasore and Sheikh […]

New Delhi: A scientist involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine at Australia’s University of Queensland has said that it may take about one year before people will actually be able to use it. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a partnership against epidemics by public, private, philanthropic, and civil organisations earlier commissioned the University […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 74 people in Odisha are under observation for coronavirus, said an official on Friday. 74 travellers who have returned from Coronavirus affected countries after January 15 have been identified by the state surveillance system and kept under home quarantine, said the Health Department official. While blood and throat swab samples of […]

Beijing: China has applied Traditional Chinese Medicine in treating more than half of the confirmed patients of novel coronavirus infection in the country’s Hubei province, which is the epicentre of the epidemic, a senior health official said on Saturday. The death toll in China’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has climbed to 1,523 with 143 new […]

Bhubaneswar: A young Odia engineer stranded in a cruise ship at Yokohama port in Japan for the last 17 days amid coronavirus outbreak, has requested the government to help him return home. The engineer, Shivasis Nayak hails from Berhampur in Odisha and was working in the ship. The ship ‘Diamond Princess’, with some 3,700 passengers […]