Important Articles from Indian Express: 25/3/2020

Front Page

  • 1.3 billion, 21 days, lockdown is key
  • Compliance norms eased for firms : FM says financial package sooner than later
  • First time since WW II Olympics put off, Japan says next summer

Outbreak

  • Noida couple with no travel history among three cases
  • Panic buying across country, cops step in
  • In a first private lab collects sample : No point being scared
  • 100 to 500 cases in 9 days, focus now shifts to medical infrastructure
  • Just 35% Indian homes wash hands with soap, water before meals

Editorial

  • Virus in a globalised India
  • Home & Nations
  • Other Contagions

Ideas Page

  • Remaking the future

Explained

  • Quarantine works better than airport screening study
  • Tracking food supply chain
  • Virus will stay : Difficult to lock down for long

Outbreak

  • US may exceed Europe as epicentre
  • For Moscows quarantined 100,000 cameras are watching

Economy

  • Markets stage modest recovery : Sensex trims day’s gain to end 693 pts higher
  • Anatomy of a lockdown : Supply chains disrupted, automakers shut production, jobs at risk
  • Labour Min directs states, UTs to use Rs 52000 cr of unutilised cess funds for construction workers
  • Govt raises insolvency threshold to Rs 1 cr to help small companies

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