The proportion of respondents expecting that overall economic conditions will improve in the next six months increased by 4.8 percentage points, from 29.8 per cent in 2020–21:Q2 to 34.6 per cent in 2020–21:Q3, said the NCAER s Business Expectations Survey (BES).
As economic activities pick up and vaccination drive gathers pace the business confidence in the country has improved, showed a survey by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).The NCAER Business Confidence index (BCI) rose 29.6 .
Masks, distancing, demography: The mystery behind India s declining Covid cases
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Last Updated: Feb 06, 2021, 09:53 AM IST
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On September 16 last year, India reported a record 97,894 coronavirus cases. Nearly four-and-half months later, on Feb 2, India registered 8,635 new cases. The drop in Covid numbers assumes significance as several countries are experiencing a second and in some cases even third wave of Covid-19 virus. Scientists have proposed numerous theories to explain this unprecedented fall.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 05, 2021)NEW DELHI: On September 16 last year, India reported a record 97,894 coronavirus cases. Nearly four-and-half months later, on February 2, the country registered 8,635 new cases.
Why are coronavirus cases falling in India
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Last Updated: Feb 05, 2021, 11:32 PM IST
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The drop in coronavirus numbers assumes significance as several countries across the world are experiencing a second and in some cases even third wave of Covid-19 virus.
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Indians are exposed to several diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, typhoid, hepatitis, cholera. Some experts speculate that exposure to these diseases in the past may have increased the immunity of the general population.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 05, 2021)NEW DELHI: On September 16 last year, India reported a record 97,894 coronavirus cases. Nearly four-and-half months later, on February 2, the country registered 8,635 new cases.
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February 1, 2021
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
But four months later, India’s coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a record low of about 9,100 new cases – in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India’s lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India confirmed about 11,000 cases.
“It’s not that India is testing less, or things are going underreported,” says Jishnu Das, a health economist at Georgetown University. “It’s been rising, rising and now suddenly, it’s vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down.”