Coronavirus updates: Maharashtra reports 59,907 new cases, highest spike ever

President Joe Biden was set to announce on Tuesday that he is shaving about two weeks off his May 1 deadline for states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines. With states gradually expanding eligibility beyond such priority groups as older people and essential, front-line workers, the president plans to announce that every adult in the US will be eligible by April 19 to be vaccinated, a White House official said.

Fadnavis has requested CM to discuss these things with all strata of society again&impose restrictions so that lives of commoners are not affected.

The European Medicines Agency said Tuesday it is still deciding whether the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots, after a top official said in an interview that there was a clear link. The EMA's safety committee "has not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing", the agency said in a statement to AFP, adding that it expected to announce a decision on Wednesday or Thursday.

Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of Covid-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe. Worldwide Covid-19 deaths are rising once again, especially in Brazil and India. Health officials blame more infectious variants that were first detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa, along with public fatigue with lockdowns and other restrictions.

"Amid the rising Covid cases in other states, there's a possibility that people hailing from Bihar might return here. We must prepare quarantine centre for them," says CM

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday said migrant workers from other states were responsible for the rapid spread of coronavirus in Maharashtra, which has been reporting a large number of new infections since the last few weeks. He said the states the migrant labourers hailed from lacked adequate facilities to test them for coronavirus.