Lockdown: India's GDP may be below 2021 in 2019

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Despite launching a large-scale vaccination campaign to fight the corona epidemic, India’s GDP may be below 2021 in 2019 GDP is expected to remain below the level of 2019 for the year 2021.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific region (UNESCAP) has released a report on Tuesday

This report states that before the onset of the epidemic in India, GDP and investment had slowed down.

According to the report, economic constraints were at their peak in the second quarter of 2020 (April-June) due to the complete lockdown imposed to prevent the corona from spreading.

The economy began to return to moderation after the lockdown was relaxed, but the economy slowed down in the fourth quarter, with annual economic growth forecasting near zero on an annual basis.

According to the report, according to the report, India’s economic growth rate is estimated to be seven per cent in 2021-22, whereas in the previous year i.e. 2020-21, due to the corona epidemic and its impact, it will fall by more than 7.7 percent. Have an estimate.

Second wave of Corona can cause serious conditions: Government

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The central government has warned the states that the health system may be under pressure due to the spurt in cases of corona infection in the recent times in the country.

According to a report on the front page of Hindustan Times , the government says that for the first time since October last year, the country’s positivity rate has crossed the 5 per cent mark, indicating the severity of the second wave of the Corona epidemic.

The government has asked all the states to immediately take appropriate steps to prevent the spread of the epidemic and to improve the facilities in hospitals and intensive care units.

In the weekly press conference held on Tuesday regarding the situation of Corona plague in the country, senior government officials marked 10 districts where the cases of Corona have increased rapidly.

These districts are – Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Thane, Nashik, Aurangabad, Bangalore city, Nanded, Delhi and Ahmednagar. Eight of these districts are from Maharashtra alone.

Vinod Kumar Pal, member of the NITI Aayog at the press conference, said, “The situation in the country has been getting worse from last few weeks. The situation is deteriorating rapidly in some states.”

He said that there is still a need to be cautious about the corona.

Pal said, “No state or district should take any kind of coercion to stop it. We have to remember that if the cases escalate, it can have a strain on the health system.”

At the same time, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that due to less testing and safety precautions for Kovid-19 and due to festivals, more people gathered at one place due to which the cases of infection have increased.

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