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The total number of positive coronavirus cases in India reached 78,003 on Thursday, after a jump of 3,722 cases in the last 24 hours. One hundred and thirty-four people died from the disease in 24 hours (between Wednesday and Thursday).
According to the update of the Union health ministry at 8 in the morning, the death toll from Covid-19 is 2,549. The number of active cases in the country is 49,219.
The health ministry had said Wednesday that the doubling time of the infection has improved to 12.2 days from 10.9 days.
Maharashtra has the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases with 25,922 positive cases, followed by Gujarat with 9,267 and Tamil Nadu with 9,227 cases.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the first part of the Rs 20 lakh rupee package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sitharaman announced a series of liquidity measures for millions of small businesses reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 blockade, including automatic unsecured loans worth Rs 3 lakh crore. It also announced a special liquidity scheme of Rs 30 billion for non-bank financial companies (NBFC), housing finance companies (HFC), and microfinance institutions (MFIs).
Prime Minister Modi had announced the package to deal with the economic crisis due to Covid-19 and called for building a self-sufficient India based on five pillars of economy, infrastructure, modern systems, technology, demographics and demand.
A decision on the future course of action on the closure is expected in the coming days, although Prime Minister Modi has said that the “fourth” phase would be different from the third, in which some relaxation has already taken place.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar participated in the virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (OCS) to discuss cooperation to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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