Baripada: A police complaint has been filed against North Odisha University vice chancellor Pradeep Kumar Chand and registrar Pramod Satapathy for allegedly violating COVID19 guidelines. According to sources, Chitteswar Behera, a first year student of the varsity, lodged the complaint at Baripada Town police station under Epidemic Act alleging the duo did not wear mask […]
New Delhi: With a single day spike of 74,383 new cases, including 918 deaths, India on Sunday crossed the 70-lakh-mark with a total of 70,53,806 so far. Out of these, 8,67,496 are active cases; 60,77,976 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 1,08,334 succumbed to the pandemic, said the latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family […]
Ghaziabad: An AYUSH doctors’ body on Saturday welcomed the government’s COVID-19 treatment protocol based on ayurveda and yoga as it asserted that ayurveda is an age-old, well-established science and “not a placebo”, days after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) criticised the Centre’s move. The Integrated Medical Association (AYUSH) said the government’s new protocol will help […]
Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 cases continued to show a declining trend in Odisha with 2546 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. This is State’s lowest number of fresh infections in over last month and a half. New Corona cases stood at 2239 on August 17, the lowest as compared to the latest figures of fresh cases […]
London: Patients of Asian ethnicity have an increased risk of dying in hospital from Covid-19, while those of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for the disease, warns a London study. The findings, published in the journal EclinicalMedicine, suggest that different treatment strategies may be required for different ethnic groups. “For […]
New Delhi: Asserting that the ‘Tika Utsav’, a vaccination drive between April 11 and 14, marks the beginning of the second big war on COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on…
New Delhi: Hitting another record daily high of 1,52,879 new coronavirus infections, India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,33,58,805, while the active cases breached the 11-lakh mark for the…
Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Bhubaneswar reached 25,464 on Sunday after 290 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours. Of the total 290 new COVID cases, 211 are local contact cases while 79 are quarantine cases, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The State capital also witnessed recoveries of 352 patients from the disease, […]
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to prohibit the entry of more than five persons at a time in all religious places. Lucknow reported a staggering…
Sydney: SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces for long periods of time as researchers at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, have found that it can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, glass such as that found on mobile phone […]
New Delhi: The government would look at two key considerations for prioritisation of the Covid-19 vaccine — the occupational hazard and risk of exposure to infection, and secondly, the risk of developing severe disease and increased mortality, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday. Besides, the supply of vaccines is anticipated to be available […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Joint Entrance Examination 2020 (OJEE), a state-government controlled centralised test for admission to many government and private medical, engineering and management institutions in the State, began on Monday and will continue till October 19. Like JEE Main examination, OJEE is also being conducted on computer based test (CBT) in three shifts per day […]
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 37.4 million mark, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,075,700, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total number of cases stood at 37,395,029 and the fatalities increased to 1,075,750, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering […]
Bhubaneswar: True, age is just a number. Amid grim circumstances of a pandemic, Basanti Patra, a 93-year-old woman from Balasore has successfully defeated the lethal coronavirus, bringing cheers to the medical fraternity of the SUM Covid hospital in Bhubaneswar. After being diagnosed with COVID-19 on October 2, the nonagenarian was admitted to the hospital three […]
London: As part of a large-scale global trial, scientists in Britain have launched a study to test if the widely-used Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine could help protect people against Covid-19. Developed almost a century ago, BCG vaccine was originally designed to fight tuberculosis (TB). It has also been reported to offer broad protection to respiratory […]
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