Unemployment peaked at 24 per cent in April, although in rural areas, farm activity displayed pandemic proofing and the Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act  (MGNREGA) provided a measure of insulation. Exports plunged 61 per cent in April, with a commensurate decline in imports.
The National Statistical Office could not collect price quotations for compiling the consumer price index due to the nation-wide lockdown and had to resort to imputations. By early June, the fury of the pandemic abated and the pace of infections started to ebb.