- Odisha on Thursday reported another single-day high of 12,238 Covid-19 cases. With the detection of fresh cases, the total caseload now stands at 5,12,400 with 86,950 active cases. New Positive Cases:12238, In quarantine: 6914, Local contacts: 5324. Sundargarh district recorded an all-time-high of 2073 cases whereas Khordha reported 1828 cases.
- The national capital must get at least 700 tonnes of oxygen everyday, as requested by the Delhi government to meet the needs of the city's COVID-19 patients, the Supreme Court told the centre today.
- As many as 19 persons in the state have succumbed to Coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
- The construction of vaccine production unit has started at Adhrua in Bhubaneswar. Target was set to start the production of vaccine including Covaxin by June, 2022. The unit at Andharua of Bhubaneswar is scheduled to produce ten types of vaccines including malaria and Covid vaccine.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday thanked, Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal for contributing Rs 20 lakhs to Chief Ministers Relief Fund (CMRF) from his discretionary grant.
- Cuttack DCP Prateek Singh informed the Cuttack UPD issued helpline number – 6370701550 for those seeking permission for marriage and funeral related activities. Someone from the city can fill-up a particular format and send the same to the helpline number through WhatsApp.
- The Indian Railways today announced to cancel the services of four Special trains originating from the East Coast Railway jurisdiction in view of poor patronization of passengers and surge in Covid-19 infection. 08445/08446 Bhubaneswar-Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Special from Bhubaneswar from May 8 to 22, 2021 and from Jagadalpur from May 9 to 23, 2021 will remain cancelled.
- The single-dose Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik Light has received authorisation for use in Russia, the Russian Health Ministry with the jab’s developer and sponsor announced on Thursday.Data collected from 28 days after the injection showed that the vaccine has 79.4 per cent efficacy, a joint statement said.
- M K stalin will take oath as Chief Minister of Tamilnadu along with 34 ministers today
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to Chief Ministers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand on Thursday about the COVID-19 situation in their states,
- An agreement for projects worth Rs 100 crore was signed on Thursday between Shri Kedarnath Utthan Charitable Trust and the PSUs of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to develop Badrinath as a spiritual township.
- In Delhi, petrol prices have been increased by 28 paise to ₹ 91.27 per litre and diesel prices have been raised by 31 paise to Rs81.73 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corporation
- Health officials in Russia has authorised the one-shot Sputnik Light version of its coronavirus vaccine for use. Sputnik Light "demonstrated 79.4% efficacy" compared to 91.6% for the two-shot Sputnik V.
- The Odisha Govt has set the target of June 2022 to commence production of Covaxin at the Andharua manufacturing plant.
- The Rajasthan Govt has decided to impose a two-week lockdown across the state between 10 and 24 May.
- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that real-time reporting of court proceedings was an extension of the freedom of speech and expression of the press and that “public constitutional institutions must find better responses than to complain".
- The Delhi government has made 14-day institutional quarantine mandatory for travellers from Andhra Pradesh and Teleganna, citing a new variant of Covid-19.
- The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the central government about its preparedness for a third pandemic wave, calling for early completion of vaccination of everyone below 18 as well since the next wave might affect children adversely.
- Mr Hemanta Soren digitally inaugurated a 528-bed makeshift COVID-19 hospital at Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) on Thursday. Of the 528 oxygenated beds, 327 were set up at the RIMS multi-storey parking lot, 73 at the oncology department and 128 at the old building of the institute.
- In March and April, there are more cases of children being infected with corona. Currently, 500 children are infected with the virus every day.
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