Tag: Covid19

New Delhi: Fresh coronavirus infections recorded in past 24 hours in India were 69,921. This was on an average a drop of several thousand cases after the numbers regularly inched closer to the 80,000-mark over the past five days. India continues to be the third worst-hit country by the pandemic with a tally of 36,91,166 […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and Bhubaneswar North MLA Susant Kumar Rout has tested positive for COVID-19. Bhubaneswar (Central) MLA Ananta Narayan Jena had earlier tested positive for the virus. Rout has informed about getting infected with the virus through a social media post. He informed that he is under home isolation and his condition is […]

New Delhi: The Covid-19-induced shrinking of economic activity for the past few months has continued to have an impact on the government’s tax collections with revenue under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) falling far below the psychological level of Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 86,449 crore in August. This is second consecutive month […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 25.6 million, while the deaths have increased to over 855,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. As of Wednesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 25,660,482 and the fatalities rose to 855,444, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases galloped past 37 lakh on Wednesday with 78,357 new instances of the disease reported in a day, while the number of recoveries crossed 29 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 76.98 per cent, the Union health ministry data showed. The death toll climbed to 66,333 with 1,045 more […]

Paris: Brazilian star Neymar is among three Paris St Germain players who have tested positive for COVID-19 after tests were carried out on Wednesday afternoon, according to French sports daily L’Equipe. The other two players are Argentine duo Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes, it said. The positive tests come eight days before PSG travel […]

New Delhi: With 83,883 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours, India’s tally mounted to 3,853,406 on Thursday, while the death toll climbed to 67,376 with 1,043 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry. Out of total confirmed cases, 8,15,538 are the active cases, while a total of 2,970,492 have recovered from the virus so far. With […]

Los Angeles: Hollywood action superstar Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he along with his wife and their two children tested positive for Covid-19 a few weeks ago, and have recovered now. Johnson took to Instagram on Thursday and posted a long video, giving health updates and urging people to take necessary safety precautions amid the […]

London: In a significant discovery, data pooled from 121 hospitals in eight countries by clinicians and scientists have found that inexpensive, widely available steroids improve the odds that very sick Covid-19 patients will survive the illness. The analysis was conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was published on Wednesday in the Journal of […]

London: The BCG vaccine, which is frequently given to children to prevent tuberculosis, is safe to give to the elderly, and can protect them against various infections, according to a study which says it may have a broad, stimulating effect on the human immune system. However the study, published in the journal Cell, cautioned that […]

New Delhi: Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that it has adopted a graded approach to unlock the country and open up various economic activities, adding that while lives are important, so is livelihood. In the fresh guidelines, which came into force on September 1, the government had paved the way for opening up more […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is working on an extensive plan to infuse life into the tourism sector which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic this year. Odisha Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy on Thursday directed Tourism Department to start river cruising in the State. At a high-level meeting with experts and stakeholders held on digital […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as Covid-19 cases are on the rise in Odisha capital, only around 5.15 percent of the residents have developed antibodies for the infections, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Prem Chandra Choudhary on Friday. “So far more than 1600 samples have been collected by the BMC in the first round of the second […]

London: A Russian Covid-19 vaccine has shown no serious side effects and elicited an immune response in early human trials, said a study published in The Lancet on Friday. Russia last month registered the “Sputnik V”, becoming the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine. However, the country faced criticism for approving a vaccine before […]

United Nations: India is contributing two teams of specialists to fortify medical facilities in UN peacekeeping operations in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to meet the Covid-19 challenge, according to India’s UN mission. New Delhi was responding to a request from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for assistance to scale-up hospital facilities […]