Sights Unseen Since Partition? What is Modi Doing As Thousands Flee Cities on Foot? #covid19
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 14 May, 2020 09:18 PM
India's lockdown was announced on March 24th and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was applauded for implementing the nationwide lockdown to tackle the coronavirus. Yet its India's labor class that has been experiencing the cold brunt of the lockdown.
The 75-per-cent subsidy on wages meant to cushion the blow from the pandemic will be available to employers that can show their revenues have fallen by at least 30 per cent due to COVID-19.
OTTAWA - Canada's charities say they have begun laying off staff and shutting down their services, which are usually in high demand during economic downturns, as the sector feels the financial sting from COVID-19.
As new restrictions came into effect barring people with symptoms of COVID-19 from planes and trains, ferry operators called for the federal government to ban such travellers from their vessels as well.
Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a measure of satisfaction from early indications that Canada's COVID-19 caseload is not on the same trajectory as that in the United States.
