Bhubaneswar: Special arrangements have been made for COVID-19 tests of all ministers, MLAs and other staff ahead of the winter session of Odisha Assembly starting from November 20, informed Speaker, SN Patro on Tuesday. During a high-level meeting held with officials of the health department and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Patro informed that it has […]
London: A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that severe Covid-19 infection appears rare in newborn babies. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, traced all babies less than 29 days old with Covid-19 across the UK, who needed to be admitted into the hospital. The analysis […]
Bhubaneswar: At a time when the daily cases of coronavirus are declining significantly in Odisha, the 90 per cent effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine has brought hopes that the global health crisis may end soon. US drug-maker Pfizer has released preliminary data from late-stage human trials of the Covid-19 vaccine it developed with German biotech firm […]
United Nations: UN Undersecretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has tested positive for coronavirus, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Dujarric told reporters at the regular noon briefing on Tuesday that the diagnosis was made while Lacroix was in Portugal, where he was scheduled to attend a meeting on Security Council Resolution […]
Bengaluru: Researchers at the renowned Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in this tech city are developing vaccines to treat Covid-19 and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), an official said on Tuesday. “The researchers have developed a heat-tolerant Covid-19 vaccine candidate and a rapid method to identify specific regions on the HIV envelope protein that are targeted […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 86 lakh on Wednesday, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 80.13 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.79 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data. With 44,281 more people testing positive for coronavirus in a span of 24 […]
Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 51.3 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,270,170, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Wednesday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 51,377,200 and 1,270,171, respectively, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update. […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after registering Covid positive cases below 1000, Odisha once again witnessed a slight uptrend with 1220 new infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the total cases to 305000 in the State, as per State Information and Public Relations (I&PR) Department. With 15 more fatalities during the period, the death toll due […]
New York: Researchers have identified a new “hidden” gene in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, that may have contributed to its unique biology and pandemic potential. In a virus that only has about 15 genes in total, knowing more about this and other overlapping genes — or “genes within genes” — could have a […]
Bhubaneswar: In view of rising Covid-19 cases, the Commissionerate Police on Friday issued fresh guidelines for marriage and funeral related functions. The CP has made it mandatory for people to…
Bhubaneswar: With Covid-19 appropriate behaviour holding key to keep the virus at bay, the Odisha government on Friday revised penalty for people found without masks in public places. As per…
New Delhi: The key vaccines India is banking on are from Oxford/AstraZeneca, Novavax and J&J and the earliest efficacy data is expected by the end of November-December 2020 and in the best case, vaccines can be rolled out in January 2021. According to a research by Credit Suisse, India needs about 1.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine […]
New Delhi: The winter season amid the Covid-19 pandemic will be very challenging, but a vaccine will be there sometime early next year, hopefully in February-March, and then, there have some degree of normalcy, said AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in an interview to IANS. However, he underlined the importance of “aggressive” Covid-appropriate behaviour in tackling […]
Mangaluru: A team of researchers at Nitte University in Karnataka’s Mangaluru have identified a new mutation in the Covid-19 genome for testing its virus strain, a top varsity official said on Wednesday. “The novel mutation will have implications for the diagnostic RT-PCR-based detection of the Covid-19 virus, which uses screening test,” Nitte senior director Iddya […]
New Delhi: With 47,905 new coronavirus infections and 550 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s overall tally stood at 86,83,916 on Thursday as the fatality toll touched 1,28,121, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. Currently, there are 4,89,294 active cases, whereas 80,66,501 patients have been cured and discharged so far. The recovery […]
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