India's Maharashtra state allows some economic activity as national coronavirus cases top 15,000


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  • Sunday, 19 Apr 2020

FILE PHOTO: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray greets people after arriving at a press conference with Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai, India, November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, (Reuters) - India's Maharashtra state, the country's largest regional economy, will allow a limited number of sectors to resume business on Monday, after a weeks-long shutdown to slow the spread of coronavirus left millions out of work.

Maharashtra, home to financial centre Mumbai, has the biggest share of India's caseload of 15,713 infections, including a large number now ripping through its densely-packed slums.

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