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    Lockdown, Day 36: India sets off rating alerts

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    29 Apr, 2020 | 05:53 PM IST


    Lockdown, Day 36: India sets off rating alerts

    India crossed two grim milestones in the last 24 hours, with the total number of cases topping 30,000 — ending the day at 31,411 — and the death toll going past 1,000. Both the number of new cases, at 1,897, and fatalities (73) reported in the last 24 hours, were the highest reported in a single day so far.

    Mumbai alone has now reported more than 6,000 cases.

    Meanwhile, India's economic outlook is getting bleaker by the day. Fitch slashed the GDP estimate to 0.8% from 5.6% in December. Moody's downgraded India's growth estimate to 0.2% from 2.5% it had assessed in March.

    Here are the developments so far...



    COUNT SO FAR
      94 new cases in Indore; MP state tally nears 1,500
      Mumbai reports more than 6,000 cases
      Rajasthan now has 2,383 cases
      20 more cases in Uttar Pradesh
      AP reports 73 more cases; tally climbs to 1,332
      Karnataka case count rises to 532
      Haryana case count climbs to 308
      Agra reports 21 new cases; district tally now 425
      Odisha reports 3 more cases; state tally climbs to 122
      Bihar reports 12 more cases; tally climbs to 378
    World India
    Tally Toll Tally Toll
    31,17,880 2,17,212 31,332 1,007

    BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
      Sensex rallies 606 pts; Nifty tops 9,500
      No salaries for April, May for SpiceJet pilots
      Jio Q4 results preview: Profit likely to double

    WORLD ECONOMY
      US oil jumps more than 14%, above $14 a barrel
      Alphabet-Google profit up despite ad slump
      VW sees 'severe' virus impact but no annual loss ahead
      Airbus posts 481 mln euro Q1 loss
      Fitch downgrades Italy rating to BBB-
      Euro zone economic sentiment crashes to 67.0 points - steepest fall ever
      Saudi reserves plunge the most in 2 decades

    GLOBAL TALLY
      Over 2,200 deaths in 24 hours in the US, total tally tops 1 million
      IMF approves $3.4 bn aid to Nigeria
      Mainland China reports 22 new cases vs 6 a day earlier
      Mexico's registers 1,223 new cases, 135 deaths
      Italy cases top 2,00,000
      Singapore reports 690 new cases, mostly foreign workers

    ET SURVEY
      Can India hit the ground running? Tell us what you think



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