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    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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