Odisha to float global tender for vaccine procurement
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‘Centre must waive taxes on vaccines and share cess and surcharges with State governments’
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‘Centre must waive taxes on vaccines and share cess and surcharges with State governments’
With vaccine shortage hampering the drive in Odisha, the Cabinet on Monday decided to float global tender to procure vaccines from international companies.
The Cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik discussed the COVID-19 situation at length and approved the proposal for procurement from the international market.
Two grooms stuck as Odisha curbs entry from West Bengal
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State govt. imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine amid rising COVID cases
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State govt. imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine amid rising COVID cases
Odisha’s two districts Baleswar (Balasore) and Mayurbhanj border West Bengal. While the Baleswar administration has identified 44 roads through which visitors from West Bengal could enter Odisha, Mayurbhanj had 34 such entry points.
At the Udayapur border check post, tension prevailed for an hour with people demanding immediate entry into Odisha. They alleged that as the “Odisha government had started a blockade at border in the morning after declaring 14-days of mandatory quarantine just hours earlier in the night, people who wanted to return home could not cope with new system at short notice.”
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Odisha imposes night curfew in 10 districts
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Number of cases reaches 3,42,224 while 1,921 have succumbed to the disease
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Number of cases reaches 3,42,224 while 1,921 have succumbed to the disease
The Odisha government on Saturday imposed night curfew in 10 districts mostly in the western region following a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases. The night curfew will come into force from Monday.
“In the interest of the general public and to prevent transmission of infection, it is directed that night curfew in the districts of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri will be in force from April 5 till further orders,” said Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra iss