Lockdown, Day 23: Maharashtra becomes first state with 3000 cases

The economic price the world may have to pay for Covid seems to be getting graver and graver. According to the IMF, the pandemic will drag Asia's growth to nil, a first in 60 years. Niti Aayog's boss, however, said India may be able to avoid a zero growth scenario.

Maharashtra today became the first state in India to hit the 3000-mark, but there's a silver lining. India's worst affected state saw a 34% dip and in new cases recorded yesterday, while state capital Mumbai witnessed a 35% dip.

Track all the other developments of the day here...



COUNT SO FAR

• 159 new cases in Indore; total in district now 597
• 19 more cases reported in Agra
• Two more test positive in Bihar; tally rises to 72
• Gujarat reports 105 new cases; state tally rises to 871
• 25 new cases in Rajasthan; total number climbs to 1,104
• 34 test positive in Karnataka; state tally at 313
• Andhra Pradesh reports 9 new cases; tally now 534
• Haryana reports 9 more cases; state count now 213
• Tamil Nadu reports 25 new cases; tally up to 1267
• Dharavi reports 11 more cases
• Maharashtra records 2,916 cases; death toll at 187
• Death toll in Karnataka now 13
• Three more deaths take Gujarat's toll to 36
• Pune reports one more death; toll rises to 44

World		India
Tally	Toll	Tally	Toll
2,072,228	137,666	12,759	420

LIFE UNDER LOCKDOWN

• All major cities named 'red zone' hotspots
• Curfew in parts of Surat from Thursday midnight
• 2G services extended in Jammu and Kashmir till April 27
• Renewal of health, motor covers extended to May 15

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

• Sensex snaps two-day losing run, gains 223 pts; Nifty ends at 8,993
• Rupee plummets 43 paise to at all-time low of 76.87 (provisional) against USD
• Goldman Sachs downgrades India to marketweight
• Wipro defers annual increments and promotions
• Foodgrain production target set at 298.3 mn tons for 2020-21

WORLD STATS

• IMF proposes to deploy full $1 tn lending capacity
• US reports 2,371 deaths in one day-- a new high
• Europe death toll tops 90,000
• France’s deaths rose by 1,438 on Wednesday
• Spain sees 551 new virus deaths as toll passes 19,000
• Germany tally rises to 130,450 (+2,866), toll to 3,569 (+315)
• China reports 46 new virus cases, but no deaths
• Google to slow hiring for rest of 2020