Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar June 1, 2020 afternoon briefed the media on decisions taken earlier in the day purportedly to help farmers as well as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME)
He was accompanied by ministerial colleagues Nitin Gadkari and Narendra Tomar
The Union Cabinet approved the infusion of Rs 20,000 crore for MSMEs: Javadekar
The Cabinet okayed “equity scheme” for MSMEs
It also approved a revision in the definition of MSMEs
Credit scheme will help five million street vendors, the minister claimed
India’s total tally for cases positive to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 jumped by more than 8,000 to 190,535 by June 1, 2020 morning, according to the Union health ministry.
Among those, 93,322 were active cases
The death toll from the ensuing COVID-19 disease was at 5,394
Maharashtra continued to bear the major brunt, with a total tally of 67,655 cases — 36,040 of those were active cases
Delhi’s count of active cases was at 10,893
The number was 9,403 for Tamil Nadu
The number of cases being reassigned to states: 5,630
The global death toll was at 373,961, according to private aggregator Worldometers.info
The total international tally was 6,267,407
The active case count was at 3,045,907
Among them, 2 per cent remained ‘serious’ or ‘critical’
May 31 was the fifth consecutive day when the world added more than 100,000 new cases.
The death toll crossed 5,000 on only three days in the last half of May
