Tag: Subroto Bagchi

Bhubaneswar: When the coronavirus count is getting bigger every day in the country, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a near lockdown for 5 districts and 8 towns till March 29. The unprecedented decision of Odisha makes it the second state after Maharashtra to take this extraordinary step to combat the growing novel coronavirus cases […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has barred the media from revealing information about the COVID-19 infected persons, their family members, doctors and health workers treating the patient. The advisory has been issued under Section-2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 and in conformity with Rule 17 of guidelines issued by the Press Council of India, informed […]

Bhubaneswar: In tandem with the Indian Railways decision to cancel all train services, barring the freight carrying ones, till March 31, Odisha government on Sunday announced cancellation of inter-state bus services till further orders. Informing this important policy decision in his regular press briefing, the state government’s chief Covid-19 spokesperson, Subroto Bagchi, said, “Odisha government […]

Bhubaneswar: With a clear objective to prevent the novel coronavirus from growing into an epidemic in Odisha, the State government on Monday decided to impose lockdown in 9 more districts taking the total to 14. In order to make the lockdown really meaningful, the State government today took many major decisions. The inter-state bus movements […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today presented a realistic scenario of the Covid-19 in the State. The numbers suggest as many as 100 individuals with some Covid-19 symptoms have been identified in Odisha while the hospital isolation cases have posted a spike to touch 45 on Tuesday. In his regular briefing on Covid-19 today, Subroto Bagchi, Covid-19 […]

Bhubaneswar: Stay home, stay safe, exercise self-control and build affiliation with your government when the country is under lockdown, said Odisha govt’s spokesperson on COVID-19, Subroto Bagchi in an exclusive interview with Kasturi Ray, Senior Editor of OTV (Digital). Ironically the same man who wrote ‘Go, Kiss The World’, is now an advocator of ‘stay […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the third confirmed case of Coronavirus infection was reported in Odisha, the government warned that there is a possibility of the outbreak in State moving into stage 3, which is community transmission. Expressing such apprehensions, Odisha government’s COVID19 spokesperson Subroto Bagchi today informed that during phase-1, the focus was on those […]

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha on the verge of jumping to the Stage-3 (community transmission phase) of coronavirus pandemic, Subroto Bagchi – chief spokesperson on COVID-19 today urged every person to act as per the directions of state government’s 104 Helpline only, instead of resorting to self-decisions. During his media briefing, Bagchi said that the third COVID-19 […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, the State Health & Family Welfare department said that the second COVID-19 case has recovered completely and tested negative for coronavirus. The 20-year-old patient who had returned from the UK is being discharged from AIIMS Bhubaneswar. With this, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the State has come down […]

Bhubaneswar: Apart from setting up three special COVID-19 (coronavirus) hospitals, the Odisha government has also kept 500 MBBS students trained to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 500 MBBS students have been given COVID-19 online training as approved by Government of India, said Odisha governments COVID spokesperson Subroto Bagchi on Friday. This apart, […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the COVID19 outbreak, two nurses working in a private hospital were evicted from their rented houses here on Tuesday, after which the Odisha government urged landlords not to “lockdown humanity” during the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of novel coronavirus. State government spokesperson on COVID-19, Subroto Bagchi said that two nurses […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday said that it is not mandatory to share all information regarding COVID-19 patients with the media and asked reporters not to seek a ball-by-ball account of all the positive cases. The governments COVID-19 spokesperson Subroto Bagchi said this while addressing the daily media briefing here. This is not an […]

Bhubaneswar: In order to deal with any kind of outbreak of COVID-19 especially in the most vulnerable rural areas, the Odisha government on Saturday informed that it has ramped up health facilities at the grassroots level by setting up as many as 6,939 temporary medical centres with total bed capacity of 1, 62,142 across 6798 […]

Baripada: Four police personnel were injured in Mayurbhanj district on Thursday as a group of people from neighbouring Jharkhand attacked them after being denied entry into Odisha in view of lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, police said. Around 20 people riding motorcycles from Jharkhand tried to forcibly enter into Odisha at Benisagar on […]

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha government making registration mandatory for people stranded outside the state & intending to return after the COVID19 lockdown ends on May 3, as many as 4.86 lakh people have registered themselves on the dedicated website. During the daily press briefing today, Odisha govt spokesperson Subroto Bagchi informed that in the past 48 […]