Sunday, 17 May 2020

Lockdown, Day 54: Another Sunday extension

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17 May, 2020 | 06:11 PM IST


Lockdown, Day 54: Another Sunday extension

The government extended the lockdown for another two weeks, till May 31, as India's case-count surged past 90,000.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made life easier for businesses struggling to deal with the side-effects of Covid. As part of the fifth tranche, the government suspended the bankruptcy code for a year.

Track the latest updates from the day...



COUNT SO FAR
    Maharashtra tally crosses 30,000-mark
    66 more Maharashtra Police personnel test positve
    Tamil Nadu adds 477 new cases; state tally now 10,585
    70 new cases take Rajasthan tally to 5030; toll now 128
    One more case in Goa; state tally rises to 16
    Odisha now has 828 cases; death toll now 5
    Assam count reaches 95
    5 more CISF personnel test positive in last 24 hours
    Andhra reports 25 new cases; total now 2,230
    Indore cases rise to 2,470; death toll reaches 100
    Delhi death toll reaches 148
World India
Tally Toll Tally Toll
46,35,830
3,11,821 90,927 2,872

BOOSTER FINE PRINT
    Covid-related debt to be excluded from default under IBC
    No fresh insolvency for next one year
    Minimum threshold to initiate insolvency raised to Rs 1 crore
    Most violations under Companies Act to be decriminalised
    Companies can now list securities directly in foreign jurisdictions
    All sectors opened to the private sector
    Borrowing limit of states increased from 3% to 5%
    Additional funding of Rs 40,000 crore for MGNREGS
    All districts to have infectious disease hospitals, public health labs

AROUND THE WORLD
    US adds 1,237 deaths in 24 hours
    China reports 5 new cases, down from 8 a day earlier
    Brazil's death toll tops 15,000
    Italy records 153 new deaths
    Spain's daily toll below 100 - a first in 2 months

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