Bhubaneswar: Is the highly infectious and ‘immune evasive strain N440K transmission happening in Odisha? What compels the corona watchers to think so is during the last 7-days, despite a drop in testing of samples, the daily positive rate has maintained an upward trend. Consider the two instances: On March 30, the number of sample tests […]
Bhubaneswar: A critical breach in Odisha’s key Covid-19 containment strategy has been observed during the last week, when the coronavirus related fatalities without any co morbidities have posted a sharp…
Bhubaneswar: Here is an emergency Covid-19 alert for the parents in Odisha. Echoing the national trend, in the last 72-hours, a high of 233 children in the age group of…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha will record a massive over 50k new Covid-19 infections in the next 30-days, if the current rate of growth continues, predicts an IIT Delhi Covid-19 researcher. If the…
Bhubaneswar: Even after testing 474 fewer samples today, Odisha has posted 88 more confirmed Covid-19 cases indicating the rapid transmission in the State. The moot point, therefore, this fact throws…
Bhubaneswar: With the Active caseload in Odisha crossing the 4000 -mark today, the State has made an entry into the top-20 states with the high active caseload, among 36 states…
Bhubaneswar: In tandem with the national trend, Odisha has also been displaying a higher rate of transmission in the second wave of Covid-19 vis-a-vis the first wave. What seems nagging…
Bhubaneswar: Even as the Covid-19 count in Odisha has been remaining below the 100-mark for the last 33-days, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s address to the people of State urging them to strictly adhere to the pandemic appropriate behaviour assumes significance. “For your cooperation, the corona situation in the State is well under control. The pandemic […]
Bhubaneswar: In view of the surge in the Covid-19 cases in the districts bordering Chhattisgarh, the Odisha government on Thursday asked the concerned district officials to step up health care infrastructure in their respective areas to deal with the emerging situation. The State’s infection rate reached a new high on Friday when 461 persons tested […]
Bhubaneswar: With Cuttack district joining the hotspot list of over 70 districts in the country where the new confirmed Covid-19 cases have grown by over 150 per cent between March 1-20, will Cuttack become the gateway for the second corona wave in Odisha? For the Odisha Health Department, the worry lines are more conspicuous. While […]
Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 March jinx is seemingly continuing for Odisha. After the virus had first marched into Odisha in the month of March last year, the month in the year 2021 has again started giving the Covid-19 jitters to the State. What looks like the big worrying numbers for Odisha are, for the first time […]
Bhubaneswar: If health department officials in Odisha are to be believed, it is the Maharashtra impact that is triggering a rise in the count of the new confirmed coronavirus cases in Odisha. Be it quarantine or local contact cases, the source of transmission is mostly from Maharashtra. “As per our analysis, the source state of […]
Bhubaneswar: Here is a Covid-19 emergency alert for the people of Odisha. Either people here have to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour diligently or get ready to brace the virulence of new ‘double mutant’ variants of Kerala and Maharashtra that has surreptitiously made their way into Odisha. As per the data released by the National Centre […]
Bhubaneswar: With a prediction by SBI research report that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic will peak in the country during the second half of April, in such a scenario, the time is ripe to ascertain where Odisha fits into the scheme of things in the country. As per the research report authored by […]
Bhubaneswar: Unlike the first Covid-19 wave, the clusters in the second wave have been the colleges in Odisha. Till date no sporadic cases of Covid-19 positives have been reported from the schools in the State, though only a single confirmed positive case has been today reported at the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bhubaneswar. SAMPLE THE FOLLOWING […]