Tag: Covid 19 Surge

New Delhi: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Saturday chaired a high-level review meeting with Chief Secretaries of various states and Union Territories and advised them not to lower their guard, enforce Covid-19 appropriate behaviour and deal firmly with the violations. The meeting to review and discuss the Covid management and response strategy, held through video […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Sunday reported 87 new COVID-19 cases from several districts across the State. This apart, a 72 years old female Covid patient of Puri district succumbed to the virus, taking the COVID-19 death toll to 1916, said the Health and Family Welfare department. The deceased was also suffering from diabetes mellitus and hypertension, […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking note of the rapid surge of COVID-19 cases, the Odisha government on Friday directed officials to step up vaccination and expand health infrastructures among other measures to mitigate the pandemic. “Vaccination of comorbid categories should be stepped up on a war footing,” State additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Mohapatra wrote in a letter […]

Bhubaneswar: The sudden spike in the daily Covid-19 cases on Monday set alarm bells ringing in government corridors in the State as top officials huddled into emergency meeting to review and assess the pandemic situation amid fears of a second wave knocking on the doors of the State. Emerging out of a review meeting chaired […]

New Delhi: Delhi has been seeing a sharp increase in new coronavirus cases in the last two weeks, especially since March 23 when the daily tally crossed the 1,000 mark for the first time this year, and the number of containment zones is also seeing a rapid upward trend, with 800 added in less than […]