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Odisha joined the club of States with over 1 lakh active cases as the State added 10,649 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours.

Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi has asked the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) to set up around 550-bedded Covid facilities in four districts of Odisha.

CM Naveen Patnaik reviewed several welfare work being carried out by Odisha-Mo Parivar, including Jiban Bindu blood donation drive, Covid Cremation Help Desk etc.

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has been granted permission to conduct the phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ on children between the 2 to age 18.

The Union Health Ministry has advised and issued guidelines on the process of proning for self care for COVID-19 patients at home in India.

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, 1997-batch IAS Officer Sanjay Kumar Singh has been appinted as the new Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner.

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start Drive-In COVID 19 RT-PCR and Antigen Testing facility at parking Lot of BMC Bhawani Mall in Saheed Nagar.

TNI Bureau:  In order to ramp up the coronavirus testing in the State and made it available in district level, Odisha Government to set up RTPCR Covid-19 testing laboratory facilities at 16 district headquarters to ensure smooth…

DRDO will build seven oxygen plants in Odisha while NHAI will look after the civil and electrical works of the plants. Odisha News, Covid 19

Now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has accepted that the corona virus is really airborne and can be transmitted from person-to-person in certain situations particularly in enclosed spaces and areas which are poorly…