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Bhubaneawar, May 21: Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain has directed Collectors of 11 districts of the State to ensure storage of adequate amount of essential commodities as a cyclonic storm may hit its coast on May 26. Odisha received a bulletin from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting the formation […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 20, 2021: Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, is providing filled medical oxygen cylinders to the Government of Odisha as part of its support in the fight against the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2000 oxygen cylinders will be supplied as part of this initiative. The […]
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Bhubaneawar, May 20: The Odisha Government on Thursday decided to include Mucormycosis aka Black Fungus as notifiable disease under Epidemic Diseases Act-1897 in view of reported rise in the incidence of Black Fungus amongst COVID-19 patients. The State Government has already formed a Task Force to monitor the incidents of such patients. Recently, the Task […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 20: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday dedicated a Liquid Medical Oxygen plant facility at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur on virtual platform. The LMO Plant has been built at a cost of Rs 2 crore. It has a production capacity of 20 thousand litres. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief […]
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Delhi/Bhubaneawar, May 20: Union Steel and Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday dedicated to the people, the augmented ICU Ventilator facilities at Ispat Post Graduate Institute (IPGI) and Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) of SAIL at Rourkela in Odisha for treatment of Covid patients. The virtual event was also attended by the Minister […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 19: Maintaining a happy sequence, a 99-year-old Covid-19 patient was wheeled out out of the SUM Covid Hospital here on Wednesday strengthening the hope that the pandemic can be defeated. Muralidhar Das of Shahid Nagar area of the city was admitted into the hospital on May 9 with co-morbidities like hypertension, diabetes and […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 19: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started collecting swab samples from expectant mothers for COVID-19 test at their doorstep in Bhubaneswar. Today, the BMC team has collected swab samples of four pregnant women for RT-PCR test, who had booked their appointment by calling on 1929 Call Centre yesterday. The swab samples were […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 19: Taking the level of care-giving to a next step during the second wave of the COVID pandemic, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to categorise patients under home isolation into two types. While the home isolation patients with no or mild symptoms of COVID are called Green Flag cases, the moderately-affected […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 19: Late sculptor-Parliamentarian Raghunath Mohapatra’s son and former Odisha cricket team captain Prashant Mohapatra succumbed to COVID-19 during treatment at AIIMS here on Wednesday, hospital sources said. He was 47. “Today he expired at 7.51 AM inspite of all possible efforts by our team of treating doctors,” said AIIMS-Bhubaneswar Superintendent Dr. SN Mohanty. […]
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Bhubaneswar, May 18: With Covid cases in the State still at a high level, the Odisha Government on Tuesday extended the lockdown for two more weeks till 5 AM of June 1. The Government took the decision to extend the lockdown after noticing positive trends in the last 15 days. The COVID-19 situation continues to […]
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