New Delhi-Sana
Today, the Central Bank of India announced the allocation of $ 7.6 billion in cheap financing to companies operating in the health field to counter the widespread outbreak of the Coronavirus.
"The soft loans will be available until the 13th of March of next year for companies working in the field of medicine and health," the French Press Agency quoted the bank’s governor, Shakticanta Das, as saying, indicating that the new measures aim to improve emergency health care at a time when hospitals are complaining of a serious lack of oxygen. And family and vaccines.
India, which is the third largest economic power in Asia, faced an economic slowdown before the epidemic, but the decline in global economic activity due to the virus and its imposition of lockdown measures were among the most strict in the world, which dealt a painful blow to the country's economy.
Coronavirus infections in India exceeded the 20 million mark yesterday, according to the latest statistics issued by the Ministry of Health, with some states announcing a severe shortage of oxygen supplies.
A record number of deaths reached 3,780 deaths and 382,000 new injuries during the past 24 hours.