Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) on Thursday clarified that lockdown would not be imposed in the state as it would bring life to a standstill and lead to the total collapse of the financial system.

Rao took this decision after examining states where lockdowns were in place and positive cases did not come down, along with past experiences.

An air ambulance, on the way from Nagpur to Hyderabad, made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday after reporting a technical snag. The Beechcraft VT-JIL aircraft declared a full emergency after losing a wheel during take-off from Nagpur and made a belly-landing at 9:09 pm.

The air ambulance carrying two crew members, a patient, a relative and a doctor was diverted to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

New Delhi: Russia's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik Light will be produced in India, much in the line of its predecessors Sputnik V whose production also happens in the country.

It will be produced in exactly the same countries where Sputnik V will be produced. So it's India, Korea, and China, said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian direct investment Fund (RDIF) in a virtual presser.

In an attempt to put a stop to the increasing COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said that a strict 'Janata Curfew' will be imposed across the state till May 15.

Chouhan said that everything will have to be shut till May 15.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the county, all persons arriving in the national capital from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will have to undergo mandatory government institutional quarantine.

This comes after reports of a more virulent variant of the virus found in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, which reportedly has a shorter incubation period and a higher transmission rate.

Jaipur: In view of the rapid increase in coronavirus cases in Rajasthan, the state government has declared a complete lockdown in the state. The lockdown will begin on May 10 from 5:00 am and will remain in place till May 24 at 5:00 am.

Under the restrictions, all activities have been completely banned in the state, including wedding ceremonies. Essential services will continue to operate.

The second wave of COVID-19 has hit India like a tsunami, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has said, attributing the unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases to the recent state elections and religious festivals in the country.

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to expunge critical remarks of the Madras High Court holding the poll panel responsible for surge in COVID cases in country, and also trashed the plea that media be restrained from reporting observations of judicial proceedings, saying it will be a retrograde act.

A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, however, acknowledged that the high court's remarks were harsh, but did not expunge them saying they do not form part of the judicial order.

Amid the rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases in Kerala, the state government has decided to impose lockdown from May 8-16 to break the chain of transmission.

A tweet posted by Chief Minister's Office said that the lockdown will remain in place from May 8-16. As directed by the CM, the entire State of Kerala will be under lockdown from 6am on 8 May to 16 May. This is in the background of a strong 2nd wave of COVID-19, tweeted CMO.

India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside.

COVID-19 infections in the world's second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.

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