• Tamil Nadu announces 'total lockdown' from May 10 to 24 to beat Covid-19

• Global Covid-19 caseload break past 156.4 mn; deaths top 3.26 mn

• Odisha brings doctors, medical students, paramedical staff under state pool

• Covid-19: Depleting savings, falling incomes leave millions poor in India

• European Union calls on US to push exports to counter vaccine shortage

• Russia to cooperate with China on production of Sputnik V vaccine

• Maharashtra wants to prioritise beneficiaries of 2nd dose of Covid vaccine

• Boeing to set up 200 oxygen bed hospital in Bengaluru, says CM Yediyurappa

• US govt doing everything it can to help India fight Covid-19, says official