Coronavirus update: Centre says not spend on any new scheme for a year

The Union government will not spend on any schemes for a year, the finance ministry reportedly said June 6, 2020.

• All ministries have been asked to hold back requests for such schemes, NDTV.com reported.
• Exceptions will need to be approved by the Department of Expenditure. 
• India added 9,851 new cases positive to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 June 5, according to the Union home ministry.

• The country had 110,960 active cases while the total tally was at 226,770 — the seventh-highest in the world.
• The death toll was at 6,348.
• The countrywide lockdown to curb the pandemic resulted in 2.6 million migrant workers being stranded across India, the chief labour commissioner said after being directed by the Cenreal Information Commission.
• The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling many gains made with vaccination campaigns for polio, cholera, measles, diphtheria, and meningitis, said World Health Organization chief Tedros A Ghebreyesus June 4.
• The Americas, “a region of massive inequalities,” are facing simultaneous health, economic and social emergencies from the pandemic, said Carissa F Etienne, WHO regional director for the Americas.

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