India covid symptoms timeline11/12/2023 May 14: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces Tranche 2 of Atmanirbhar package of Rs 3.10 lakh crore (1.55% of GDP). It includes collateral free automatic loans to MSMEs, 100% credit guarantee cover to banks, NBFCs worth Rs 3 lakh crore, subordinate debt to stressed MSMEs worth Rs 20,000 crore, equity infusion for MSMEs worth Rs 50,000 crore and EPF support for 3 months worth Rs 2,500 crore. May 13: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces Tranche 1 of Atmanirbhar package of Rs 5.94 lakh crore (2.97% of GDP). May 12: PM Narendra Modi announces Rs 20 lakh crore Atmanirbhar package, says size is 10% of GDP, including announcements made by RBI earlier. 50,000 confirmed cases reported in India. May 7: Phase 1 of Vande Bharat mission to evacuate nearly 15,000 Indians stranded abroad begins. Shramik Special trains started for stranded migrant workers. Divides districts into red, orange and green zones on the basis of cases. May 1: Home Ministry extends lockdown for two weeks starting May 4 with zone-wise restrictions. MHA issues “National Directives” for COVID-19 management, makes wearing a face cover mandatory in work and public spaces.Īpril 29: India records 1,000 confirmed deaths. (Express file)Īpril 5: Upon PM Modi’s call, citizens light diyas, candles, torches and flashlights to show solidarity with Covid-19 frontline healthcare workers.Īpril 6: The death toll in India crosses the 100-mark.Īpril 14: Prime Minister Modi extends the 21-day lockdown to May 3. Nizamuddin Markaz, which is the international headquarters of Tabilghi Jamaat, emerged as a Covid-19 hotspot. March 30: Nizamuddin Markaz, which is the international headquarters of Tabilghi Jamaat, emerges as a Covid-19 hotspot, with authorities saying around 5,000 are being traced across the country. March 27: RBI announces a three-month moratorium (March 1 to May 31) on loan and card repayments and slashed its main policy rate - repo rate by 75 basis points and cash reserve ratio (CRR) of banks by 100 basis points to stabilise the financial markets and reduce the pain on borrowers hit by Covid-19 pandemic. Migrant workers walked thousands of kilometres after the lockdown was imposed. The package includes free food to the “poorest of the poor”, income support to farmers and unorganised sector workers. March 26: On the second day of the lockdown, India witnesses migrant labourers walking hundreds of kilometres along highways to reach their native villages.įinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces a Rs 1.7 lakh crore package under a new scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKBY) to address the economic distress. A nationwide lockdown across India was imposed on March 25 last year. Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year until 2021. March 25: A nationwide lockdown across India is imposed till April 14, with only essential services kept out of its purview. Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposes lockdown in Britain. March 22: Upon a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a 14-hour voluntary lockdown called ‘Janata Curfew’ was observed in India. CDC recommends no gatherings of 50 or more people in the US. March 15: Total number of Covid-19 cases touches 100 as Maharashtra overtakes Kerala with maximum infections. India also bans entry of foreigners and suspends all visas from March 13 to April 15. March 12: India reports first fatality due to Covid-19 after a 76-year-old man from Kalburgi, Karnataka, dies. At this point, more than 1,21,000 people were infected and over 4,300 died globally. March 11: WHO declares Covid-19 a pandemic, which is defined “an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, and most people do not have immunity against it”. About 3,711 people, including 138 Indians, were quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan after a passenger, who had disembarked at Hong Kong, are found to be infected with the virus. The plane lands at 8 pm, and takes off with 323 Indians and seven Maldives nationals at 6 am on February 2.įebruary 3: Kerala government declares coronavirus a state calamity after two more cases were reported in Alappuzha and Kasaragod district.įebruary 4: India cancels existing visas for Chinese and foreigners who had visited China in the last two weeks as the death toll in China exceeds that of the 2002-03 SARS outbreak. More than 7,500 cases were reported in 20 countries of the world.įebruary 1: The second evacuation flight approved by China. On the same day, WHO says the crisis is a global emergency of international concern as the death toll in China jumps to 170, with 7,711 cases reported in the country. A 20-year-old medical student who just came back from Wuhan in China was India’s first Covid patient. January 30: India’s first Covid-19 patient - a 20-year-old medical student who just came back from Wuhan in China - reported in Kerala’s Thrissur district.
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