Covid screening at the airport on Monday
BHUBANESWAR: The state’s daily Covid tally on Monday crossed 500. It reported 573 Covid cases after more than four months. The last time Odisha reported more than 573 cases was on November 27, 2020.
For the second consecutive day, Sundargarh district reported a high number of cases 80 but it was Khurda, once the state’s Covid hotspot, that reclaimed its position at the top of the infection charts with 96 cases. On Sunday, Khurda had reported 40 cases.
Nine of the 10 western Odisha districts where night curfew was enforced from Monday together reported 290 cases. Southern Odisha’s Malkangiri and coastal Dhenkanal did not report any cases.
IIT Bhubaneswar director RV Rajakumar said that results of these tests will be published after two weeks of the completion of the examinations
BHUBANESWAR: IIT Bhubaneswar will complete end-semester examinations of all undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses, except first year UG courses, by May 12. Examinations of the first year UG students will end by July 15.
IIT Bhubaneswar director RV Rajakumar told TOI that results of these tests will be published after two weeks of the completion of the examinations. “After two weeks of summer break, new academic year will start in the first week of August this year,” he added.
Officials said since the beginning of the vaccination drive on January 16, Odisha has reported 110 AFEI, 22 of which were termed serious and the remaining 88 mild to moderate (Representative image)
Bhubaneswar: A 57-year-old man from Puri district, who had taken the first dose of Covishield on Sunday afternoon, died later that night after reporting adverse event following immunization (AEFI). This has taken the number of such deaths to six in the state.
Director family welfare (DFW) Bijay Kumar Panigrahi said the autopsy report of the deceased is still awaited. “All the six deaths are being reviewed to find out if any of them had a correlation with the vaccine. All the six had co-morbid medical conditions,” he added.
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP on Monday alleged that the state government is showing undue favours to private companies and providing land to these business houses by taking kickbacks. It also raised the issue of loss in power sector.
BJP state general secretary Lekhashri Samantsinghar at a press conference here on Monday lashed out at the state government for awarding contracts to ineligible private companies for setting up of power transformers in different parts of the state.
According to the CAG report, the state government has lost Rs 175 crore in this process. “Why the government hesitates to rope in government companies for this work? The reason is very clear that the government wants favour from these companies,” said Samantsinghar.
The BMC seals a private educational institute for violating Covid rules in Bhubaneswar on Monday
BHUBANESWAR: Detection of Covid cases in educational institutions has created a challenge for the state government. If the cases increase, the pandemic will disrupt planned syllabi and exam schedule.
The BJB Autonomous College here on Monday issued a notice regarding the detection of a Covid case on campus. A student from the commerce stream of the junior college tested positive on Saturday. The college has advised students who have come in contact with the infected person to isolate themselves for at least seven days and go for RT-PCR test.