Tag: Covid19

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to a private hospital, an official said on Sunday night. “The Chief Minister took a test after feeling unwell. As the test was positive, he has been admitted in a private hospital on the recommendation of doctors,” the official told […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 18 million mark, while the deaths were nearing 688,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total number of cases stood at 18,002,567 and the fatalities rose to 687,930, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in […]

New Delhi: With 52,972 new coronavirus cases and 771 deaths in the last 24 hours, India’s overall caseload stood at 1,803,695, while the total fatalities increased to 38,135, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed on Monday. The country had crossed the 17 lakh mark on Sunday. Notably, as many as 1,07,707 […]

Berhampur: Ganjam Teachers’ Joint Association on Monday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to relieve them from the responsibility of managing COVID Care Centres in the district. In a letter to Southern RDC addressing the CM, the teachers’ body lamented that despite the district administration’s earlier order make Panchyat officials as CCH in-charge, they have been […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the continuous uptrend of COVID cases in Odisha capital city, Regional Medical Research Centre Director Sanghamitra Pati on Monday informed that the crucial second phase of serological survey will be conducted from 16 August. “The process for the second sero-survey carries utmost significance as it will show the July infection status in the […]

Cuttack: The numbers that seem to stack against the containment, sanitisation and awareness strategy of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), Behera Sahi near Cuttack Malgodown reported 57 new positive cases in last 24 hours. While 14 cases were brought to notice on August 1, no less than 22 cases were detected on August 2 in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday allowed normal functioning of public and private sector banks with 50 per cent staff till August 31 by following the COVID-19 guidelines. All the public and private sector banks, regional rural banks, state co-operative banks, small finance banks and insurance companies are allowed to function as per the normal […]

New Delhi: Defending champions Mumbai Indians have started assembling slowly with most of the domestic players having arrived in Mumbai or arriving in the next couple of days. The Indian stars are also set to join them in the next 7-8 days as they gear up for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League […]

Dehradun: Plastic from used personal protective equipment (PPE) can and should be transformed into renewable liquid fuels, according to Indian researchers. The study, published in the journal Biofuels, suggested a strategy that could help to mitigate the problem of dumped PPE – currently being disposed of at unprecedented levels due to the current Covid-19 pandemic […]

Manila/Moscow: Millions of people in the Philippines returned to a COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday, after doctors warned a surge in new coronavirus cases could push the country’s healthcare system to collapse. Stay-at-home orders are now in place in Manila and the four surrounding provinces of Laguna, Cavite, Rizal and Bulacan on the island of Luzon […]

New Delhi: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Tuesday announced the launch of Favipiravir, under brand name FluGuard, at Rs 35 per tablet for the treatment of mild to moderate cases of Covid-19 in India. Favipiravir is an oral anti-viral treatment approved in India for the potential treatment of patients with mild to moderate Covid-19 disease. […]

Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defence has said that a Covid-19 vaccine that it developed in partnership with the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology appears to be safe. On August 3, a “final medical examination” of participants in clinical trials of the vaccine took place at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital, […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated two new plasma banks at VIMSAR in Burla and MKCG hospital in Berhampur. After SCB Hospital in Cuttack, Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar and IGH in Rourkela, these two Plasma centres in Berhampur and Sambalpur promise to bolster Odisha’s fight against the COVID19. While inaugurating the plasma […]

Jaipur: A 23-year-old student, K. Goutam Kumar, has developed a UV-E SAFE kit that helps in sanitising money, documents, files and other belongings within a minute. Kumar is pursuing entrepreneurship skills training from Bharatiya Skill Development University (BSDU). Taking about his invention, Kumar said: “In times of a global pandemic like Covid-19, a sudden need […]

New Delhi: India’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday asserted that the spread of coronavirus has been contained in the country, citing how half the total cases are from three states only and another 30 per cent from seven others. His remarks come as the country is inching towards the grim mark of two million […]