Coronavirus live updates: Consider imposing lockdown to curb Covid cases, SC tells Centre

"The vaccination drive for citizens in the age group of 18-44 years will begin in Delhi from May 3. The Delhi government has already received 4.5 lakh vaccines and now they are being distributed to all the districts," the Chief Minister said. Kejriwal also appealed to every citizen that the vaccination process is not walk-in yet, so they shouldn't queue up at the centres.

"Its local production is about to start soon and is planned to be gradually increased up to 850 million doses per year. Look forward to further expand our bilateral and multilateral cooperation with India to stop the pandemic," envoy Nikolay Kudashev said.

With the additional supply, Haryana's quota for medical oxygen has increased to 257 MT

A committee appointed to probe the death of five COVID-19 patients in a single day earlier this week at a private hospital in Maharashtra's Thane city, has concluded that they did not die due to shortage of oxygen, the authorities said on Saturday. The committee concluded that the patients died of pneumonia and severity of COVID-19 infection and not due to any other factor, the statement said.