Tag: Covid19

Bhubaneswar: After Kalinga Stadium opened its gates for elite athletes to train for the Olympics, the cadets from the Hockey High performance Centre, the Nava Tata Hockey Academy Odisha, resumed outdoor training at the stadium following the Standard Operating Procedures as laid down by the state and COVID-19 international guidelines for players laid down by […]

New Delhi: India recorded a spike of 18,522 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 5,66,840, with the number of fatalities inching closer to 17,000-mark, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday. Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu constitute more than 60 per cent of the […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 10.3 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 505,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases increased to 10,302,052, while the fatalities stood at to 505,505, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering […]

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has asked all states and UTs to hand over bodies of suspected COVID-19 cases to their relatives without waiting for laboratory confirmation of the infection but said the mortal remains should be disposed of as per government guidelines. A letter on the matter was sent to all states and […]

Manju Jeena, an ASHA from village Kandalei of Khurda district, Odisha, has been working tirelessly to support COVID-19 related activities and ensure that her community has access to essential and other health services. In her years of committed community service, Manju has built up significant social capital, enabling her to effectively negotiate in addressing COVID […]

New Delhi: The Centre has allowed voters above 65 years and Covid-19 positive people under home or institutional quarantine to use postal ballot to cast their votes in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In a gazette notification issued last month, the Law Ministry gave its nod for amending the Conduct of Elections (Amendment) Rules 2020. […]

New Delhi: With a large number of people showing no symptoms testing positive for COVID-19, the Union Health ministry has revised home isolation guidelines to include asymptomatic positive patients in the list of mild or pre-symptomatic Coronavirus infection cases. However, immune compromised patients (included HIV, transplant recipients, cancer therapy) are not eligible for home isolation, […]

Bhubaneswar: As Odisha’s Covid19 numbers explode with nearly 500 new cases for the second consecutive day, the State capital, Bhubaneswar too witnessed a sharp spike in SARS-nCoV infections by registering a record 45 new positive cases on Saturday. As per data released by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, the city’s Covid tally has now touched 414 which […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the welfare measures undertaken by the BJP during the nationwide COVID-19-induced lockdown as seven state units of the party gave a presentation of their work at a video conference. Reviewing the relief work done by the party’s Bihar unit during the ‘Seva Hi Sangathan’ meet, Modi […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was shifted to a military hospital in Rawalpindi on Saturday, a day after he tested positive for the coronavirus and went into self-isolation. Qureshi on Friday announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a long list of Pakistani lawmakers who have contracted the deadly virus. […]

New Delhi: As India races to bring a vaccine for Covid-19 by mid-August, the government on Sunday said that it is entering the human trial stage which “marks the beginning of the end”. COVAXIN by Bharat Biotech and ZyCov-D vaccine by Zydus Cadila is India’s own efforts to bring a vaccine for this global pandemic. […]

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a series of measures to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the annual Haj pilgrimage scheduled to take place later this month. The Kingdom will limit the number of domestic attendees to around 1,000 and touching the Kaaba, Islam’s most sacred monument will be banned, reports […]

San Francisco: Google on Monday launched a free training programme for small-to-medium sized news publishers that would be available first in Europe and will roll out to more regions in the coming months. Called the Digital Growth Programme under the Google News Initiative (GNI), it has been created to help establish and grow the online […]

New Delhi: A 37-year-old journalist undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here died after allegedly jumping off the fourth floor of the hospital building on Monday afternoon, officials said. The journalist used to work for a Hindi daily and was a resident of northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura, they said. The incident took place […]

New Delhi: India on late Monday evening went past the seven lakh-mark in terms of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases as 22,252 fresh infections were reported, taking the total number of cases in the country to 7,19,665. Also, with 467 people succumbing to the lethal virus in the last 24 hours, the country was second […]