Highlights: Maharashtra records 53,605 new cases, 864 deaths

A newly-elected village pradhan in the district succumbed to Covid-19 at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday.

For last 7 days, 180 districts in the country have not seen a single new case of Covid-19. 18 districts have not recorded any cases in last 14 days. 54 districts have not witnessed any new case in last 21 days: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

Bihar: Janata Dal (United) leader and Legislative Council member Tanveer Akhtar dies of Covid-19.

PM Modi spoke to Maharashtra CM on the Covid related situation in the state.

Govt has ensured global aid is being effectively and promptly allocated and delivered to States/UTs. 2933 oxygen concentrators, 2429 oxygen cylinders, 13 oxygen generation plants, 2951 ventilators/Bi PAP/C PAP and more than 3 lakh Remdesivir vials delivered so far: Government of India.

To complete vaccination within 3 months, we need to vaccinate 3 lakh people every day. Currently, we are inoculating 1 lakh people in a day. I request Central government to ensure adequate availability of vaccines to Delhi: CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Govt of India has so far provided more than 17.49 crore vaccine doses (17,49,57,770) to states/UTs free of cost. Of this, the total consumption including wastages is 16,65,49,583 doses. Over 84 lakh doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered: Health Ministry.

If Delhi government is given 80-85 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine per month, we can complete vaccination within three months: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has written to Central government, seeking permission to develop a separate app for COVID vaccination in the state. He wrote the letter following complaints of frequent glitches in CoWIN platform.

70% of Covishield stock will be used to vaccinate 45+ who are due for 2nd dose and rest 30% will be used to vaccinate 45+ seeking 1st dose. While Covaxin will be administered only to 45+ who are due for 2nd dose after 6 weeks of 1st dose: Dr K Sudhakar, Karnataka Health Minister

₹30,000 crores is nothing for the central government... There should be a universal vaccine program for all throughout the country: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the state Assembly.

Covid-19 infection has reached villages of Uttarakhand. The level of transmission despite Corona Curfew is a matter of concern. To contain the spread, the government will take a major decision by May 10: Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Subodh Uniyal.

Imphal West district administration imposes curfew till May 17 under Section 144 of CrPC to contain Covid-19 spread; essential services and people going for vaccination and Covid test exempted from restrictions.

200 oxygen cylinders and 10 oxygen concentrators sent by Thailand government and another 100 oxygen cylinders and 60 oxygen concentrators donated by Indian community in Thailand arrive in Delhi.

Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday 169 new Covid-19 disease cases and one more death, taking the caseload and death toll to 19,802 and 60 respectively, a health department official told news agency PTI.

Of the new cases, Capital Complex region added the maximum at 38, followed by Lower Dibang Valley at 26 cases, Lower Subansiri and Upper Subansiri at 16 cases each, Namsai at 14 cases, the official added.

Telangana's Covid-19 disease caseload climbed to 487,199 on Saturday after 5,559 new cases and 41 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate of the state is 84.81 per cent and the case fatality rate stands at 0.54 per cent

India on Saturday registered over 400,000 new cases (401,078 exact) of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for a third consecutive time, taking the caseload to over 21.8 million, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard. As many as 4,187 people succumbed to the disease on Friday and the toll has now climbed to 238,270 with a fatality rate of 1.09%. More than 17.9 million have recovered so far while the active cases are at 3,723,446 and account for nearly 17% of the caseload. Read more

Tamil Nadu will be observing a complete lockdown for two weeks starting from May 10 amid the worsening coronavirus disease (Covid-19) situation in the state, news agency ANI reported.

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday that the country wants to secure more vaccine doses as it is battling a surge in the cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). “We may need 150-200 million doses of vaccine for future phases (of the rollout),” Prayuth said. Just a little over 2% of the country's population has been vaccinated so far.

Brazil, the third worst-hit nation from the Covid-19 disease pandemic, added 78,886 new cases and 2,165 more deaths, taking the caseload to nearly 15.1 million, according to the health ministry.

Sikkim on Friday recorded the highest single-day spike in its daily tally of the coronavirus disease at 268, taking the caseload to 9,451, an official told news agency PTI. Two more people succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday and the state's toll has now climbed to 160, the official added.