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Extraordinary
times need extraordinary measures and the outbreak of coronavirus has
presented a new challenge to the world which was already battling
economic challenges.
India
currently is under a 21-day lockdown to break the chain of this virus
and as our Hon’ble Prime Minister said, if we don’t act now, the
development of our country will be pushed back by 21 years. In this
scenario, it is important for us to continue to connect with each other
through various communication channels, keep our confidence level high
and spearhead policy advocacy in a focused manner with government and
all other stakeholders.
IMTMA
is bringing you information on what countries across the world
including India are doing to combat the situation. The special bulletin
aims to give insight on news, advisories and notifications from various
government bodies and other institutions including some of the best
practices which are being adapted to control the pandemic.
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News
Updates
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Central Government Advisories
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Reserve Bank of India
India’s
central bank announced several monetary measures, including special
lines of liquidity, loan moratorium, and easier asset quality norms,
to help the economy tide over the crisis stemming from the novel
coronavirus pandemic. Read
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Cabinet Secretariat
Cabinet
Secretary Rajiv Gauba has asked states to immediately strengthen
surveillance of international air travellers who entered India
between January 18 to March 23, 2020. Read
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs,
Food & Public Distribution
State
Government authorities including Excise Commissioners, Cane
Commissioners, Drug Controllers and District Collectors of various
states have been advised to remove any bottlenecks in supply of
ethanol/ENA to manufacturers of hand sanitizers. Read
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Ministry of Defence
Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh urged Armed Forces, Defence PSUs and other
organisations to gear up preparedness and provide all required
assistance to civilian authorities. Ministry is also looking at
transfer of technology and manufacturing of life saving equipments
like ventilators. Read
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State Government Advisories
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Government of Karnataka
Measures
for the poor like payment of two months of social security pension in
advance, release of Rs 1,000 per person to about 21 lakh construction
workers and waiving of Rs 13.20 crore loan under "Badavara
Bandhu" scheme, among others. Read
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Government of Kerala
Spread
authenticated and correct information that is empowering and does not
create panic in the minds of people, the first step of CoronaSafe
Network is to develop and spread awareness on the way the virus
spreads, precautions to be taken and to bust fake news and
myths. Read
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Central Government Notifications |
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Has
notified that it is necessary and expedient to regulate and restrict
the sale and distribution of the drug ‘Hydroxychloroquine’ and
preparation based thereon for preventing their misuse. Read
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Ministry of Commerce & Industry
For
any COVID-19 related Export or Import issue, a Helpdesk has been
operationalized by Directorate General of Foreign Trade in the
Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Exporters/importers may directly flag their issues. Read
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Ministry of Home Affairs
Issued
orders to all states and union territories for inclusion of agencies
engaged in procurement of agriculture products, mandis operated by
APMC, farming, manufacturing and packaging units of fertilizers,
pesticides and seeds, etc. in essential category. Read
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Department of Science &
Technology
DST
has set up a COVID 19 Task force for mapping of technologies from
R&D labs, academic institutions, startups, and MSMEs to fund
nearly market ready solutions in the area of diagnostics, testing,
health care delivery solutions, equipment supplies. Read
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State Government Notifications |
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Government of Goa
Appointed
Incident Commanders for talking effective measures to prevent spread
of COVID-19. They will coordinate with other line departments and
verify status of quarantined individuals and implement other
government orders related to COVID-19. Read
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Government of Tamil Nadu
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state government has announced one month of special pay to doctors,
nurses and sanitation workers. Read
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| National Best Practices |
Bharat Fritz Werner Limited (BFW)
Initiatives
such as awareness sessions by physician for all departments,
awareness about hygiene etiquettes for using mobiles and laptops
etc. Read
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Godrej Group
The
group has launched a slew of initiatives and earmarked a Rs
50-crore fund for support and relief. Godrej Consumer has commenced
free distribution of one million packets of Godrej Protekt Mr Magic
powder-to-liquid hand wash was distributed across Maharashtraand.
The group has also reduced the price of the hand sanitizer by 66
per cent under its #ProtektIndiaMovement. Read
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Hyundai India
Hyundai
has placed an order of COVID-19 kits from South Korea that will be
distributed Center and State Bodies in India. They estimate that
these highly accurate kits could serve over 25000 people. Read
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Maruti Suzuki
Maruti
has tied up with AgVa Healthcare to scale up production of
ventilators. The automaker intends to manufacture 10,000
ventilators per month. MSIL subsidiaries, Krishna Maruti and Bharat
Seats, will provide two million masks and protective
clothing. Read
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Mahindra & Mahindra
The
company has offered to use its manufacturing units to make
ventilators. The Group's resorts will be used as temporary care
facilities. Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra will donate 100
per cent of his salary to the fund. Read
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TVS Motors / Sundaram Clayton
Company,
along with group firm Sundaram-Clayton, plans to spend Rs 30 crore
towards making a million masks, employing factory kitchens,
supplying food to daily wage labourers and exploring the
possibility of making ventilators. Read
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Google
Google
has announced a new $800+ million commitment to
support small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs),
health organizations and governments, and health
workers on the frontline of this global
pandemic. Read
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Apple
The
company will be shipping 2 million N95 face masks for
healthcare workers across hospitals in Europe and the
US. Read
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Ford
Ford
has partnered with 3M and GE Healthcare to assemble
plastic face shields to distribute to emergency
medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will
3D print 100,000 face shields each week to help
protect health care workers. Read
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General
Motors
The
company has announced that it will use its resources
to help produce much-needed ventilators for treating
COVID-19 patients. In a joint statement, GM and
Ventec Life Systems said they are collaborating to
boost production of Ventec ventilators. Read
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Indonesian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin)
has collected more than Rp 300 billion (US$18.3
million) from its members for healthcare equipment
and aid for healthcare professionals in the fight
against the COVID-19 pandemic. Read
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