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May 14, 2020 08:33 AM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
Coronavirus India News LIVE Updates: Known COVID-19 cases at 74,281; death toll nears 2,500
Live updates of the novel coronavirus pandemic and its socio-economic impact. Total confirmed cases in India have risen to 74,281.
Today is the fifty-first day of India’s nationwide lockdown, meant to stop the novel coronavirus pandemic. Known COVID-19 cases in India stand at 74,281. The death toll in India due to the outbreak has reached 2,415.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced the first tranche of the economic package’s details. The finance minister is expected to make more such announcements in the coming days.
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Coronavirus News LIVE Updates | Countries with the highest confirmed cases
> United States: 13,90,361 confirmed cases (includes recoveries and deaths)
> Russia: 2,42,271 cases
> United Kingdom: 2,30,986 cases
> Spain: 2,28,691 cases
> Italy: 2,22,104 cases
> Brazil: 1,89,157 cases
> France: 1,78,184 cases
> Germany: 1,74,098 cases
> Turkey: 1,43,114 cases
> Iran: 1,12,725 cases
(Source: Johns Hopkins University CSSE, as of 8.10 am IST on May 14)
Economic package | Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced Rs 3 lakh crore worth of collateral-free loans to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
The government will full guarantee these loans, Sitharaman said.
Coronavirus impact | A parliamentary standing committee on labour has sought reply from nine states including Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat on "dilution" of labour laws, its chairperson Bhartruhari Mahtab said on yesterday, asserting that the industry cannot be pampered at the cost of labourers' rights.
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Coronavirus in Germany LIVE updates | Germany to start easing border controls from May 16
Germany will start to relax from May 16 some border controls introduced in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus with the aim of having free travel in Europe from mid-June, Interior Minster Horst Seehofer has said.
The tentative step, aimed partly at helping the tourism sector, comes as the European Commission prepares to urge a return to "unrestricted free movement", though that push will stop if there is a major second wave of infections. (Input from Reuters)
Coronavirus in US LIVE updates | United States has recorded 1,813 more deaths in the past 24 hours due to COVID-19, taking the total number of fatalities to 84,059, according to Johns Hopkins University CSSE.
Coronavirus impact | UN forecasts pandemic to shrink world economy by 3.2 percent
The United Nations has forecast that the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the world economy by 3.2 percent this year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
The UN's mid-year report said the impact of the coronavirus crisis is expected to slash global economic output by nearly $8.5 trillion over the next two years, wiping out nearly all gains of the last four years.
In January, before COVID-19 became a pandemic, the UN had forecast a modest acceleration in growth of 2.5 percent in 2020. (Input from AP)
Lockdown 4.0 details?
Additionally, PM Modi, during his address to the nation on May 12 said that details of ‘Lockdown 4.0’ will be announced before May 18. That announcement could also happen today.