Tag: Covid 19

New Delhi: With 24,010 fresh novel Coronavirus infections and 355 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.56 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 94.89 lakh, on Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 99,56,557 […]

Bhubaneswar: The daily Covid-19 count in Odisha continued its downward trend on Thursday. As many as 351 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours in the State which pushed the positive tally over 3.25 lakh. Of the fresh cases reported from 27 districts, 203 were related to quarantine while the remaining 148 are […]

Cuttack: The Odisha government on Thursday announced that Corona Warriors including doctors and other frontline health workers will get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost in the State. Informing this development, the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Das said that the vaccination against coronavirus is likely to begin from January 2021. While talking to […]

Washington: The total number of global covid-19 cases has surpassed 74.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.66 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 74,875,300 and 1,660,132, respectively, in its latest […]

New Delhi: With 22,890 new coronavirus infections and 338 deaths in the past 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.79 lakh on Friday, while the death toll reached 1,44,789, Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Friday. In the past 11 months, 95,20,827 people have recovered, of whom 31,087 recovered in the last 24 hours, […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed all the states to carry out fire safety audit of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals across the country to prevent fire incidents in medical institutions. The apex court also directed dedicated COVID-19 hospitals to take a no objection certificate (NOC) from the fire department within four weeks and said […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 358 people were tested positive for Covid-19 while four patients succumbed to the virus in Odisha in the last 24 hours pushing the infection tally to 3,25,505 and death toll to 1,829 in the State on Friday. The new cases were detected from 27 districts of the State. A total of […]

Washington: Researchers have now claimed that more and more evidence is coming out that people with Covid-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. The study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that that the spike protein, often depicted as the red arms of the virus, can cross the blood-brain […]

New Delhi: As we approach the beginning of another year, some good news is in store for the central government employees. The employees can start celebrating the New Year 2021 from today itself as they are most likely to take home an increased salary in 2021. The Narendra Modi-led Central government is expected to restore […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the doors of the Lord of the Universe (Jagannath) are going to get unlocked for general devotees after over 270-days of lockdown on the coming Wednesday, the pandemic of novel Coronavirus, termed by many in Puri as the Kalapahar of this century, has rendered this one among the top-10 prosperous temples in […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the reopening of the Lingaraj temple on December 27, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday issued Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for devotees and servitors to keep COVID-19 at bay. As per the official decision, the gates of the Lingaraj temple would be initially thrown open for the sevayats and their families […]

Sambalpur: Samaleswari temple, the abode of presiding deity of undivided Sambalpur district Goddess Samaleswari, will reopen for the devotees on January 3, 2021 after remaining out of bounds for several months in the wake of Covid pandemic. The decision to reopen the 16th century shrine was taken by the district administration on Friday. As per […]

New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he tested positive for Covid-19. The 59-year-old ICMR chief was admitted to AIIMS’s Trauma Centre, a dedicated Covid-19 facility, on December 16, a hospital source told IANS on condition of […]

A head nurse at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, caused a brief scare on Thursday when she fainted shortly after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports. Tiffany Dover, a head nurse at Chattanooga, Hospital in Tennessee, passed out during a press briefing. The Head nurse was addressing media from the Hospital and […]

New York: The United States on Friday authorised a second Covid-19 vaccine in a single week’s time, green lighting a shot developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health for emergency use in Americans of 18 years and older. The Moderna approval comes exactly a week after the US Food and Drug Administration […]