LIVE: Meghalaya reports 321 new Covid-19 cases, 5 more deaths

Meghalaya on Sunday recorded 321 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the tally of active cases to 1,821. This is the biggest single-day spike the state witnessed this year. With the fresh infections, the overall caseload in the northeastern state has mounted to 17,429.

Nagaland reported 216 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, pushing the tally to 14,350. The Covid-19 death toll rose to 109 as two patients succumbed to the disease.

A record single-day spike of 157 Covid-19 fatalities and 7,327 new cases pushed Punjab's death toll due to the disease to 9,317 and infection tally to 3,85,270, according to a medical bulletin issued here on Sunday. The number of active cases rose to 60,108 from 58,229 on Saturday, it said.

The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units in France rose by 4 to 5,581 on Sunday, halting five consecutive days of decline, health ministry data showed.

Britain reported 1,671 Covid-19 new infections on Sunday as well as a further 14 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. The official data also showed that 34.51 million people had received their first dose of the vaccine.

Italy reported 144 coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday against 226 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 9,148 from 12,965.

Maharashtra on Sunday reported 56,647 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and 669 deaths with which the total number of cases in the state reached 4,722,401, while the death toll reached 70,284. A total of 257,470 people were tested in the state in 24 hours, the bulletin showed and the total number of recoveries in the state stood at 39,81,658 as 51,356 were discharged on Sunday. Read more

Andaman and Nicobar Islands Covid-19 tally rose to 6,046 as 97 more people tested positive for the infection while one new fatality pushed the coronavirus death toll in the union territory to 68. Of the 97 new Covid-19 cases, 85 were detected during contact tracing and 12 were airport arrivals.

Jammu and Kashmir recorded 3,571 fresh Covid cases, taking the tally to 1,83,486 on Sunday, while 41 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,370. Out of the fresh cases, 1,150 were from the Jammu division and 2,421 from the Kashmir division of the Union Territory.

Nagpur on Sunday reported 5,007 cases and 112 related deaths while 6,376 recoveries were recorded in the district.

Himachal Pradesh on Sunday recorded 1,351 fresh Covid-19 cases which took the tally to 1,03,389, while the death toll rose to 1,537 with 25 more people succumbing to the disease, a senior health official said. There are 19,763 active Covid-19 cases in the state, Special Health Secretary Nipun Jindal said citing data updated till 2 pm.

Nigeria will ban travellers coming from India, Brazil and Turkey because of concerns about the rampant spread of coronavirus in those countries, a presidential committee said on Sunday. "Non-Nigerian passport holders and non-residents who visited Brazil, India or Turkey within Fourteen (14) days preceding travel to Nigeria, shall be denied entry into Nigeria," Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee on Covid-19, said in a statement. The ban will take effect from May 4, the statement said.

Russia's coronavirus deaths rose by 342 in the past 24 hours, bumping up the death toll to 110,862, the Covid-19 response center said in a statement out Sunday. The country confirmed 8,697 new cases over the same period. More than 4.8 million have contracted Covid-19 in Russia since the pandemic began.

The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported on Sunday 8,346 new coronavirus disease infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,054,983. The death toll climbed to 17,431 after 77 more patients died from the viral disease.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal extended his condolences to his colleague and fellow cabinet minister Satyendra Jain who lost his father to Covid-19.

As the second wave raged on, taking lives of people aged between 30-40 years, several children were orphaned as they lost both parents to the pandemic. Read more here.

Beneficiaries were seen at a vaccination centre is Rajasthan's Banswara taking their jabs in phase III of vaccination.

At the meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials discussed the prospects of incentivizing MBBS and nursing students so that they can join Covid-19 duty.

Delhi police officer and IPS Monika Bhardwaj shared an advisory and asked people to be aware of fake Remdesivir medicines.

Leading automobile manufacturers initiated various steps to ensure that their staff are safeguarded as the second wave continues to rage across the nation. Medicals teams have been deployed by several major car companies to test and track employees.

The Congress party's youth wing supplied oxygen cylinders to the embassy of Phillippines, news agency Bloomberg reported.

Odisha CM says journalists are doing a great service to the state by providing seamless information to the people.

Australia's fourth-largest city Perth may face a second snap lockdown as three people tested positive for Covid-19.

PM Modi will meet the nation's medical experts at 9:30am to review oxygen and medicine availability.

Pak health ministry said that over 3,000 children in Pakistan between the age of 1 to 10 years tested positive for COVID-19 in April.