Tag: Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha continued to report 1000-plus Covid-19 cases for the third consecutive day with 1379 new cases being reported from different parts of the State in the last 24 hours.…

Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 135 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.92 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update…

Bhubaneswar: With 271 new COVID19 positive cases getting detected in the last 24 hours, the total cases in the city rose to 24,735 according to the data shared by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Of the fresh cases, a whopping 203 were local contact cases while the remaining 68 were quarantine cases, the civic body […]

Cuttack: In what could be a positive sign in the battle against COVID19, only 71 new positive cases were reported in Cuttack city on Tuesday. The latest data released by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) revealed that out of the 118 new COVID19 positive cases reported in Cuttack district, 74 were from Cuttack city. The […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 37.7 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,078,860, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 37,738,569 and the fatalities increased to 1,078,868, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed […]

Washington: US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced that it has temporarily paused its Covid-19 vaccine trial after a participant became unwell. “We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial, due to an unexplained illness in a study participant,” Xinhua news agency quoted […]

New Delhi: India’s tally on Tuesday mounted to 71,75,880 cases with a spike of 55,342 coronavirus cases, the lowest since August. India recorded around 55,000 cases on July 31 (55,078), August 4 (52,050) and August 18 (55,079). India is showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the past five weeks. After a month, […]

Dhenkanal: In another situation pointing fingers at the alleged mismanagement by the authorities, a coronavirus-infected patient Duryodhan Behera of Barada village here has reportedly gone missing from a Covid hospital, forcing the family members to run from pillar to post in search of him. According to Behera’s kin, he was admitted to the dedicated Covid […]

Bhubaneswar: In a declining trend, Odisha has registered 2275 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the lowest daily-cases in several weeks, pushing the virus tally to 256937 on Tuesday. Of the fresh cases, 1318 patients are from quarantine while 957 are local contact cases, informed State I&PR department. As many as seven […]

Tokyo: Scientists have estimated that the age of an individual does not indicate how likely they are to be infected by Covid-19, however, the development of symptoms, the progression of the disease, and mortality are age-dependent. There have been a large number of deaths due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and it has been shown […]

Bhubaneswar: There has been a sharp decline in the COVID-19 cases, particularly in the last 10 days in the State, official sources said on Tuesday. The daily cases have also registered a drop in worst-affected districts of Ganjam, Khordha, Cuttack and Puri. Sources said the drop in new cases may force the State government to […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 2796 patients recovered from Covid-19 in Odisha taking the State’s total recoveries to 2,32,988. State Health department informed that the highest number of recoveries were reported from Khordha district where 582 patients were declared free of the viral disease. Similarly, Cuttack recorded 179, Jajpur 148, Angul 135, Puri 127 recoveries. A […]

New York: Global Covid-19 cases have surpassed 38 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global case count on Tuesday reached 38,006,121, with a total of 1,083,875 deaths worldwide, the CSSE data showed, Xinhua news agency reported. The US reported 7,850,829 cases and 215,775 deaths, both […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 72,39,389 with 63,509 infections being reported in a day, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 63 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 87.05 per cent, according to the Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The coronavirus death toll climbed to 1,10,586 with […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India’s Aarogya Setu app during COVID-19 virtual media briefing at Geneva on Tuesday. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the app helped city public health departments identify clusters and expand testing in the second worst affected country. “The Aarogya Setu app from India has been […]