A record 4,14,188 more persons contracted the coronavirus in India as the country saw the virus claiming the lives of 3,915 people over the past 24 hours, Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday showed.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal thanked the Centre for supplying Delhi with 730 metric tonnes of oxygen and requested hospitals to increase the Covid-19 beds. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Government launched 'Mission Oxygen' to scale up the medical oxygen production from 1,200 MT to 3,000 MT over the next few weeks.
Coronavirus in India:
Total number of positive cases (including deaths): 2,14,91,598 as of May 7, 2021
States/UTs death toll (details are updated as we receive information): 2,34,083 as of May 7, 2021
| States | Total Cases | Deaths |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 6,255 | 72 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 19,634 | 59 |
| Assam | 277,687 | 1,531 |
| Bihar | 553,803 | 3,077 |
| Chandigarh | 47,552 | 541 |
| Chhattisgarh | 816,489 | 9,950 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu | 8,502 | 4 |
| Goa | 108,267 | 1,501 |
| Gujarat | 645,972 | 8,035 |
| Haryana | 573,815 | 5,137 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 118,729 | 1,737 |
| Jharkhand | 270,089 | 3,479 |
| Karnataka | 1,790,104 | 17,212 |
| Kerala | 1,786,396 | 5,628 |
| Lakshadweep | 3,528 | 8 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 637,406 | 6,160 |
| Maharashtra | 4,942,736 | 73,515 |
| Manipur | 33,733 | 447 |
| Meghalaya | 18,630 | 193 |
| Mizoram | 7,147 | 17 |
| Nagaland | 15,271 | 121 |
| Delhi | 1,273,035 | 18,398 |
| Puducherry | 66,627 | 901 |
| Punjab | 416,350 | 9,979 |
| Rajasthan | 702,568 | 5,182 |
| Sikkim | 9,183 | 158 |
| Tamil Nadu | 1,297,500 | 14,974 |
| Telangana | 481,640 | 2,625 |
| Tripura | 36,849 | 404 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,425,916 | 14,501 |
| Uttarakhand | 220,351 | 3,293 |
| West Bengal | 935,066 | 11,964 |
| Odisha | 500,162 | 2,121 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,228,186 | 8,446 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 201,511 | 2,562 |
| Ladakh | 14,909 | 151 |
No. of people discharged: 1,76,12,351
Total Vaccination: 16,49,73,058
Note: The tallies above include foreigners who have been infected with Covid-19.
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