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Bhubaneswar, May 15: In a bid to free up more beds for critical COVID-19 patients at different hospitals, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to rope in hotels for converting into COVID-19 facilities to treat patients with mild infection in the State Capital. Today, the BMC Commissioner, Sanjay Kumar Singh chaired a virtual meeting […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 15: The Odisha Government has formed a High-level Advisory Committee under the chairmanship Dr Srinath Reddy, India’s leading Public Health expert and president, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to advice the State on strategy for vaccination and to tackle future waves of COVID-19 pandemic. The committee consists of eminent health care personalities […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 15: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday started a massive sanitisation drive with dedicated sanitisation vehicles in its three administrative zones. Today under the South East Zone, three vehicles were deployed near Satyanagar Crematorium and carried out the activity to sanitise the public area. According to BMC sources, three dedicated vehicles are […]
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Delhi, May 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting to discuss the COVID-19 and vaccination related situation in the country and focused on localised containment strategies to contain the spread of the infections. According to a PMO release, officials briefed the PM on the current Covid related situation in the country. […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 14: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has signed an agreement with city-based NGO Pradeep Seva Trust today to start functioning of another crematorium at Bharatpur Mouza, on the outskirts of the capital city. The agreement was signed by BMC Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Srimanta Mishra and Pradeep Seva Trust secretary Madhusmita Prusty at the […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 14: Putting technology to use for better COVID management and quick transfer of patients to the dedicated COVID hospitals (DCH) and COVID care centres (CCC), the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started GPS tracking of the emergency vehicles. While the city authorities have a fleet of 64 ambulances under the COVID management programme, […]
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This will include 162.5 lakh of Covishield and 29.49 lakh of Covaxin Delhi, May 14: The Central Government will provide 191.99 lakh doses of Covishield and Covaxin to the States and UTs, free of cost between May 16 and 31. This will include 162.5 lakh of Covishield and 29.49 lakh of Covaxin, said an official […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 14: Odisha on Friday reported highest single-day spike of 12,390 COVID-19 positive cases and 22 deaths, informed a data released by the State Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department. With this, the total caseload surged to 5,88,687 in the State while the death toll mounted to 2,273. Odisha currently has 1,04,016 active cases […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 13: In view of poor patronisation in above trains and keeping in view the surge of COVID-19 positive cases and to break the chain of infection, four express special trains will remain suspended the end of May from both the directions. According to an the East Coast Railway (ECoR) statement, Puri-LTT-Puri Weekly Special […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 13: Odisha on Thursday registered 10,649 new COVID-19 positive cases, 8,547 new recoveries and 19 fatalities in the last 24 hours, as per the State Health and Family Welfare Department. The fresh cases took the State’s cumulative count to 5,76,297. The State’s active cases stood at 1,00,313 while the total death toll in […]
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