Nirmala Sitharaman said the government is assessing GDP contraction and is not closed to the option of another stimulus package to soften the blow the pandemic dealt the economy.
Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said India’s covid-19 count would drop to 40,000 active cases by February 2021 if “coronavirus-appropriate behaviour is followed", a prediction based on modelling done by “scientists from the world".
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