Tag: Covid 19

London: Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – marking the start of the UK’s mass vaccination programme against the deadly disease. Keenan, from Enniskillen, said she felt “so privileged” to receive the jab at University Hospital, Coventry. Keenan became […]

Paris: The French Open has been postponed by a week due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said in a statement on Thursday. The clay court Grand…

Bhopal: Owing to the rising cases of coronavirus, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to put all urban areas under lockdown from 6 p.m. on Friday evening to 6 a.m.…

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 97.35 lakh on Wednesday, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 92 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 94.66 per cent, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 97,35,850 with 32,080 new infections being reported in […]

London: In a significant development, the first full results from interim analysis has confirmed that the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine has an acceptable safety profile and is efficacious against symptomatic the Coronavirus caused disease, with only three out of 23,745 participants experiencing serious adverse events. Interim results of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trials found that the […]

The coronavirus pandemic seems to have hit the television industry hard. With several actors and crew members of different serials and reality shows testing positive for the virus, shoots have…

Bhubaneswar: As many as 386 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Odisha in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of positive cases to 322299. While 223 fresh cases are from quarantine, the rest 163 are local transmission cases, according to Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department. #Odisha reports 386 new #COVID19 cases in […]

Bhubaneswar: The health machinery in Odisha finds itself on toes following a steep rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the State. The State on Thursday witnessed a quantum…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday granted financial assistance of Rs 15 lakh to the kin of deceased working journalist Prabir Pradhan who succumbed to coronavirus infection on November 5. Pradhan was a senior crime reporter with an Odia news channel and lost his life following Covid complications while under treatment. As per the released […]

New Delhi: Even as the world cheers the progress being made on several vaccines to protect against the Covid-19 pandemic, there is great excitement now on Molnupiravir, a new anti-viral drug which according to latest research completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours. If these ferret-based data translate to humans, Covid-19 patients treated with the […]

Bhubaneswar: The main branch of State Bank of India (SBI) has been sealed for four-day starting today after detection of more number of Covid-19 positive cases. “To contain the further…

Bhubaneswar: Around 700 vaccination centres were closed down in Odisha after the State ran out of Covid-19 vaccine stock on Wednesday. The vaccination drive was completely disrupted in Koraput district…

New Delhi: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, over one lakh students of classes 10 and 12 have signed petitions urging the government to either cancel board exams scheduled to…

Bhubaneswar: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to conduct the Personality Tests (interviews) of Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020 from April 6, 2021. Earlier, the results of the…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha continues to maintain an upward trend in the Covid-19 graph with 879 fresh cases reported in last 24 hours today. Out of the total cases detected in last…