Covid-19

Odisha reports 226 new Covid cases, two deaths

Bhubaneswar: As many as 226 more people tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, taking Odisha’s caseload to 10,46,088, a health official said. Two fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll in the state to 8,383, the official said. Khurda district recorded the highest number of new cases at 114, followed by 15 in Cuttack. Ten…

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SUM Hospital

Experts observe worrying trend in diabetics

Bhubaneswar: Experts have observed that Covid-19 had infected more number of people with diabetes than compared to other people. “The Covid virus easily infected persons with diabetes and these patients subsequently became critical,” Prof. Abhay Kumar Sahu, head of the department of Endocrinology at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, said. He described both…

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