India's Covid caseload has reached 2.43 crore with 3.26 lakh new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death count has touched 2.66 lakh with 3,980 people dying of the infection.
The country's cumulative COVID-19 recoveries have surpassed two crore mark with 3,44,776 patients recuperating in a day. This is the fourth time in the last five days that recoveries have outnumbered daily cases.
More than 18 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country till Friday, according to the Health Ministry.
World health experts issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped, AFP reported. "We're on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first," said the World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Here are the Live Updates on India Coronavirus (Covid-19 Cases) Cases:
West Bengal announces restrictions, to be imposed from 6 am on May 16 to 6 pm on May 30
- ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2021
Schools, govt/pvt offices, malls, cinema halls, restaurants, gyms to be closed; metro, intra-state transportation suspended; movement of pvt vehicles prohibited. Emergency services exempted. pic.twitter.com/bitlbn3jQ3
Letter To An Indian Healthcare Hero From A US DoctorYou are part of a sacred tribe that never really relied on each other but this pandemic has bound us together through the unbreakable bond of tragedy."
Lockdown In #WestBengal For 2 Weeks From Tomorrow, Essential Services Allowed
- NDTV (@ndtv) May 15, 2021
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#NDTVCoronavirusTracker pic.twitter.com/kAxmtng6Pi
- NDTV (@ndtv) May 15, 2021
Vaccines will be available in large amounts probably in about 2 months' time as companies that are making vaccines will start opening up their manufacturing plants, there'll be more vaccine doses available. We'll get vaccines from outside too: Dr Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Director pic.twitter.com/yfnTtmNai6
- ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2021
PM Modi Holds Meeting On #Covid19, Vaccination
- NDTV (@ndtv) May 15, 2021
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Aircraft arrives carrying consignment of 105 ventilators, 7,50,000 masks/respirators and other medical equipment from Kazakhstan: Arindam Bagchi, Official Spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) pic.twitter.com/0gMsvqIJex
- ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2021
Madhya Pradesh: Police check vehicular movement in Bhopal as the state capital is under 'Corona Curfew' till May 17th. pic.twitter.com/tZsgWpruhy
- ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2021
Sputnik V Vaccine India - Your Questions About Newest COVID-19 Shot AnsweredThe first doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine were given out in India on Friday in a soft launch that is expected to be scaled up in the coming days."
