Daily Covid-19 cases jump by 13,956

The number of daily Covid19 cases across the country rose significantly from below 30000 to over 43000 according to the data updated by the Union health ministry at 8 am The government added 43645 new infections 13956 more than the day before and 640 fatalities in a span of 24 hoursOn Tuesday morning 29689 new cases and 415 deaths were recorded nationwideThe number of active cases increased by 1336 to 399436 in 24 hours as per Wednesdayrsquos data The national Covid19 recovery rate has improved to 9739 per centThe daily positivity rate increased to 251 per cent from 173 per cent on Tuesday The weekly positivity rate stood at 236 per cent The case fatality rate stands at 134 per centFree vax across TNThe Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday formally launched the free vaccination drive at private hospitals by utilising the corporate social responsibility funds provided by companiesThe programme has been rolled out with the CSR funds of CII which had contributed Rs 220 crore along with the Rs 7 lakh contribution of noted hospitality service provider Adyar Anand Bhavan an official release saidlsquoStimulus aid inadequatersquoA Parliamentary panel report has stated that the Centrersquos stimulus package for the revival of the pandemichit economy has been found to be ldquoinadequaterdquoldquoThe measures adopted by the government were more of loan offering and longterm measures instead of improving the cash flow to generate demand as immediate reliefrdquo stated the report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry on the impact of Covid19 pandemic on micro small and medium enterprises MSME sectorIt has recommended that the government should immediately come out with a larger economic package aimed at bolstering demand investment exports and employment generation to help the economy including MSMEs to recover from the pandemic falloutldquoIt is estimated that almost 25 per cent of MSME loans could slip into default as several MSMEs are finding it tough to draw working capital from banksrdquo the associations told the committee as per the report31484605Total no of Coronavirus cases in india so far422022Total no of deaths due to the virus in India so far399436Total no of active cases in IndiaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever