Coronavirus Odisha

Centre moves Supreme Court, seeks nod for Jagannath Rath Yatra to be held this year without public participation

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in Puri can be allowed to be held this year without public participation in view of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the 'tradition of centuries may not be stopped'

Home ministry blacklists 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members, including UK and US nationals, cancels tourist visas

Four Americans, nine Britishers and six Chinese nationals were among the 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat activists who were blacklisted and their tourist visas cancelled by the Union home ministry, officials said on Friday.

Coronavirus Outbreak: No community transmission of COVID-19, says Odisha govt; 39 positive cases reported in state so far

As per a report of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Odisha has not yet entered the stage 3 of COVID-19 transmission, which is community transmission, Subroto Bagchi, the state government's spokesperson on COVID-19, said

Coronavirus Outbreak: 17 of 22 Tablighi Jamaat returnees to Odisha test negative; all put in govt quarantine facility, says state health ministry

22 persons including seven foreign nationals linked to Nizamuddin event have been traced in Odisha, an official in states Health and Family Welfare Department said, adding that all are now in the government quarantine facility

Odisha reports first coronavirus case; 33-year-old returned from Italy on 6 March, being treated in Bhubaneswar's Capital Hospital

'His condition is stable and he is not showing any other complications', state government's chief spokesperson on coronavirus cases Subroto Bagchi told reporters