Coronavirus daily update | More RBI relief measures, and a new testing kit developed in Kerala | The Hindu In Focus Podcast

April 18, 2020 12:23 am | Updated April 19, 2020 12:41 am IST

The RBI introduced additional measures on Friday to infuse liquidity into the market and ease the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Health Ministry, meanwhile, has some figures about how the lockdown has slowed down the rate at which the number of cases has doubled in India. We also have a quick update on a new RT-PCR test kit for COVID-19 that has been developed by a lab in Kerala that could be a much cheaper and faster alternative to the diagnostic test kits currently available to us.

( Recorded on April 17, 2020 )

Guests : Suresh Seshadri , Associate Editor, The Hindu ; Jacob Koshy , Deputy Science Editor, The Hindu

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