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World Bank forecasts worst economic slump in South Asia in 40 years
Other than India, the World Bank forecast that Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh will also see sharp falls in economic growth.
Three other countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Maldives – are expected to fall into recession, the World Bank said in the report, which was based on country-level data available as of April 7.
FPIs pull out Rs 9,103 cr in April as Covid-19 triggers rush to safe havens
During this holiday-truncated week (between April 6-10), with just three trading sessions, “FPIs withdrew net assets worth $457.5 million from the Indian markets. This was significantly lower than the net outflow of $1.7 billion recorded in the previous week.”
In grim milestone, United States logs world’s highest coronavirus death toll
Public health experts have warned the U.S. death toll could reach 200,000 over the summer if unprecedented stay-at-home orders that have closed businesses and kept most Americans indoors are lifted when they expire at the end of the month.
Govt is well prepared in case of exponential rise in Covid-19 numbers
“The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 8,356 and the death toll to 273. A total of 909 new cases and 34 deaths have been reported since Saturday. The good news is that 716 people have recovered and have been discharged so far. Seventy-four people have been cured since Saturday. The government is extra prepared if the number of cases rises exponentially,” he said.
Lessons countries can learn from COVID-19 in Italy decoded
Since COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are strongly dependent on the presence of concomitant serious diseases, Italy with its high proportion of patients with history of smoking and heart disease, has been particularly vulnerable, the researchers said.
Another factor linked to high mortality rates in Italy is the increased burden of cases that presented themselves to the health care system, they wrote in their analysis.
Last century’s epidemics far more deadly than 21st century’s
The deadliest epidemic of the haemorrhagic fever Ebola broke out in West Africa in December 2013 and lasted more than two years, killing more than 11,300 people, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Social isolation for elderly may last longer: EU chief
“Without a vaccine, we have to limit as much as possible contact with the elderly,” she told the Germany daily Bild.
Caronavirus Pandemic:Confirmed cases cross 7,000 across India; Governments gear up for extending lockdown with some possible relaxations
The Union Home Ministry also sought views of State governments on the 21-day lockdown including on whether more categories of people and services need to be exempted, officials said on Friday, amidst indications of a possible two-week extension of the nationwide restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus.The Health Ministry in the meantime maintained that no community transmission is taking place as yet in India, while the World Health Organisation also put the country in a category named ‘cluster of cases’ – a notch below the community transmission stage and a classification used by the global body for cases “clustered in time, geographic location and/or by common exposures”.
Lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to ‘deadly resurgence’ of COVID-19, warns WHO
Expressing concern over health workers getting infected by the virus, the WHO DG said: “Every month, we will need to ship at least 100 million medical masks and gloves; up to 25 million N95 respirators, gowns and face-shields; up to 2.5 million diagnostic tests; and large quantities of oxygen concentrators and other equipment for clinical care.”
“To move these supplies around the world, the World Food Programme will deploy eight 747 aircraft, eight medium-sized cargo aircraft, and several smaller passenger planes to move humanitarian workers, technical staff, trainers and other personnel.”
Plea in SC seeks to nationalise all health care facilities in India till COVID-19 is contained
“India does not have sufficient public health care infrastructure to combat a pandemic like COVID-19 and as a last resort India needs to take help of private health care sector,” the plea said.