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Twin City Police Commissioner Soumendra Priyadarshi has clarified that activities such as Morning Walk, Evening Walk and Cycling are completely prohibited during the Lockdown period.

India reported 362,727 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, May 12. Maharashtra recorded 46,781 new cases followed by Kerala (43,529) and Karnataka (39,998).

The gap between two doses of Covishield vaccine should be increased to 12-16 weeks, a Central Government panel has recommended on Thursday.

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday postponed the civil services preliminary examination in view of the alarming COVID situation. The UPSC Prelims 2021 was scheduled for June 27, 2021.

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.