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Hit by the coronavirus pandemic, real estate developers have resorted to layoffs and pay cuts and are focusing on cost control measures as sales are likely to remain muted in the coming months, PTI reported quoting industry experts.
The realty sector employs 60-70 lakh people, including three lakh white-collar employees, according to industry estimates. As per estimates by MyHiringClub.com and Sarkari-Naukri.info, around two lakh employees, including white-collared, in the real estate sector are expected to be laid off due to the coronavirus crisis, the report said. More than 60,000 jobs have been slashed so far.
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The Madhya Pradesh government will launch a 'Kill Corona' campaign from July 1 to control the spread of Covid-19 in the state, PTI reported quoting Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Under the campaign, door-to-door surveys will be conducted and tests would also be done on citizens for other diseases. Chouhan said during the 15-day campaign, 2.5 lakh tests will be carried out and 15,000-20,000 samples would be collected daily.
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The Haryana government allowed shopping malls in Gurgaon and Faridabad to reopen from July 1, more than two months after they were shut to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, PTI reported.
The state had earlier allowed malls to reopen from June 7, barring Gurgaon and Faridabad that accounted for overwhelming proportions of Covid-19 infections and fatalities.
The malls can remain open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. so as to ensure compliance of the night curfew between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., PTI reported citing the standard operating procedures issued by the Urban Local Bodies Department.
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The Delhi government allowed the city’s restro-bars, hotels, and clubs to sell their stock of beer expiring by July 15 to liquor shops to minimise their financial losses, PTI reported quoting an official aware of the matter.
There are around 950 hotels, clubs and restro-bars in the national capital which have an excise licence but have not been allowed to open since March 25, when the lockdown was announced.
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The lockdown will not lift after June 30, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
The crisis persists, gradual resumption of activity does not imply all is fine, he said.
According to a PTI report, Thackeray said the 'Chase the Virus' initiative that received good results in worst-hit Mumbai will now be expanded to other parts of the state to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
As part of the campaign, 15 close contacts of each Covid-19 patient will compulsorily be kept in institutional quarantine, while community leaders will tell people about co-morbidities, meals and other facilities available at institutional quarantine facilities etc, clinic timings, etc.
The confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe are approaching 10 million, with deaths closing in on 500,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The Australian state of Victoria will enforce testing for returning travelers and could put some suburbs back into lockdown as it battles a worsening spike in new infections.
(Source: Bloomberg)
India’s fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic is driven by its people, PTI reported quoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying during the virtual meeting of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin. He attributed the success against the contagion to the implementation of the nationwide lockdown in its initial phase.
The pandemic, according to Modi, has been used as an opportunity to improve the healthcare facilities, the report said.
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A retired police constable died of Covid-19 in Puducherry, while 29 fresh cases were reported, PTI reported citing government data. That takes the total tally of infections to 648 in the union territory.
A total of 512 samples were tested and of them 29 turned positive, the report said. Active cases in the union territory stood at 385, including the discharge of 252 patients and death of 11 people so far.
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