The agency claimed the outbreak will impact confidence, financial markets, travel sector and disrupt supply chains and will affect all the G20 economies in 2020
The agency cut the country's 2019 economic growth from the 6.1 per cent that it estimated in October, citing a sharper-than-expected fall in domestic demand and stress in NBFCs leading to a decline in credit growth.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asked banks not to announce any stressed loan account for MSMEs as NPA till March 2020 and work on its debt modification