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| 07 May, 2021, 10:13 AM IST | E-Paper
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    Shock, fear, helplessness: Covid’s second wave is an emotional and economic crisis for MSMEs

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    It is not just the economic hardships; the second wave of Covid-19 has torn families. As MSMEs struggle to stay afloat, they confront a virus ravaging their kith and kin.

    Manish Bansal, Director & CEO of Window Magic, a uPVC windows and doors manufacturer, still shudders when he thinks of the time his entire family, except him, were detected Covid positive. In March this year, his mother, father, wife and 1.5-year-old daughter contracted the deadly virus which left Bansal in an acute state of panic. “Covid entered my family in the last week of March. The first week was extremely tough in every sense — mentally,
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