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Coronavirus live updates: Maharashtra reports 960 Covid deaths, highest so far

THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 15, 2021, 23:17:27 IST

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Coronavirus live updates: Maharashtra reports 960 Covid deaths, highest so far

India recorded 3,26,098 new cases and 3,890 fatalities on Saturday, as per Covid data collated from state government figures. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 31,30,17,193 samples were tested for Covid-19 up to May 14, 2021. Of these, 16,93,093 samples were tested yesterday. Stay with TOI for all updates:

16:26 (IST) May 15

For the fourth time in the last five days, India's daily Covid-19 recoveries outnumber new cases, taking the total recoveries to 2,04,32,898: Health ministry

16:22 (IST) May 15

Around 1.5 crore doses of Covaxin are being produced per month. The plan is to ramp up the production to 10 crore doses per month: Dr VK Paul, Member-Health, Niti Aayog

16:20 (IST) May 15

Overall single-dose vaccination coverage among frontline workers stands at 82% in the country. It is 93% in Gujarat, 91% in Rajasthan, & 90% in Madhya Pradesh -- well above the national average. In Delhi, it stands at 80%

Dr VK Paul, Member-Health, Niti Aayog

16:16 (IST) May 15

15:52 (IST) May 15

Overall situation (second wave of Covid-19) is stabilising, we will work towards ensuring further stabilisation. Govt

15:45 (IST) May 15

85% of Covid cases from 10 states: Health ministry

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15:37 (IST) May 15

24 states have more than 15 per cent Covid positivity rate: Government

15:31 (IST) May 15

As Covid-19 cases are increasing, it's of paramount importance that we follow protocols of infection control practices at hospitals. It is been seen that secondary infections -- fungal and bacterial -- are causing more mortality: AIIMS director Randeep Guleria

15:23 (IST) May 15

Our containment efforts are working. Overall positivity rate in India, which stood at 21.9% last week has now fallen to 19.8%. Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Daman & Diu, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh have reported a major drop in case positivity

Lav Aggarwal, Union health ministry

15:19 (IST) May 15

Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai has converted his residential premises into Covid care center with 50 beds, at Shiggaon

15:16 (IST) May 15

11 states have over 1 lakh active cases, 8 states have 50,000 to 1 lakh active cases, and 17 have less than 50,000 cases. Maharashtra, UP, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh where high number of cases are being reported are also reporting decline in active cases: Luv Aggarwal, Health Ministry

15:10 (IST) May 15

Former CM and leader of opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami urged PM Modi to increase the supply of oxygen, Remdesivir and allotment of vaccines to Tamil Nadu

15:06 (IST) May 15

Best time (to take Covid-19 test) is after one or two days after symptoms like fever, loss of smell, taste, breathing issues, or diarrhea set in. Though this (RT-PCR test) is gold-standard test in the world, it'll detect only 70% cases of infection

Dr Lal PathLabs MD Arvind Lal

15:02 (IST) May 15

Covid-19 testing up from around 50 lakh per week in early March to around 1.3 crore per week now: PMO

14:59 (IST) May 15

Localised containment strategies are the need of the hour: PM Modi at high-level meeting on Covid-19 situation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting on the country's Covid-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination drive.

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14:45 (IST) May 15

Black fungus declared notified disease in Haryana

State health minister Anil Vij on Saturday said black fungus has now been declared a notified disease in Haryana.

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14:40 (IST) May 15

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad writes to PM Narendra Modi, suggesting measures to increase Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing in the country, say party officials

14:40 (IST) May 15

Delhi reports 6,430 new Covid-19 cases, 11,592 recoveries and 337 deaths

14:38 (IST) May 15

Delhi government has issued an amount of Rs 1,051 crore for MCDs. We hope that this will be used to pay the salary of the MCD staffers who have not been getting the salary. We also hope that the regime of the MCD will ensure that this will not be diverted anywhere else

Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia

14:11 (IST) May 15

No RT-PCR report: 4 SpiceJet pilots spend 40 hours inside aircraft in Croatia before flying back to Delhi sans cargo or passengers

Four SpiceJet pilots had to spend almost 40 hours onboard the aircraft they operated from Delhi to Croatian capital Zagreb this Tuesday before flying the Boeing 737 back home.

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