Amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Gurugram, the district administration has allowed upscale condominiums, gated housing societies, and NGOs to set up small Covid care centers while using their own resources.
In the wake of a continuous rise in coronavirus cases, the Odisha government has announced a 14-day lockdown in the state. According to the Odisha government, the lockdown will be imposed from May 5 to May 19. On Saturday, Odisha saw a major jump in the number of novel coronavirus cases, with 10,413 new infections. These cases were detected from among 47,462 samples tested on Friday, recording a positivity rate of 21.93 percent.
Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday witnessed a toxic gas leak that came from some cylinders that were kept on open ground. The district civic official informed of the happening, that took place around 10 pm in Thane's Bhiwandi Township.
A record 3,689 daily COVID-19 fatalities pushed India’s death toll to 2,15,542, while the infection count reached 1,95,57,457 with 3,92,488 more people being confirmed positive for the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The active cases have crossed the 33-lakh mark, the data updated at 8 am showed. 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting on Sunday to review the human resource situation in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and ways to augment it, sources said.
Serum Institute of India CEO Aadar Poonawalla has said that the production of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield is in full swing in Pune and he will review the operations once he is back in the country. Regarding the latter, he has said he will return to India from London in a few days. Poonawalla is currently in the UK to meet his family members.
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