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Businesses Offer Employees Time ‘to Heal’ as Virus Ravages India

Relatives attend to a Covid-19 patient receiving oxygen in Uttar Pradesh, India, on May 11.Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

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By Nupur Acharya and Dhwani Pandya

May 12, 2021 at 1:41 AM UTC

Updated on

May 12, 2021 at 9:59 AM UTC

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Some companies in India are temporarily halting business or offering unusual assistance to employees as a devastating wave of the coronavirus sickens and kills hundreds of thousands.

Feng Tay will suspend its Indian factories for 10 working days to keep its employees safe, the Nike-supplier told the Taiwan stock exchange Wednesday. It follows firms including Honda Motor Co. and Suzuki Motor Corp. that have announced similar decisions in recent days.