Eating out, poor hand hygiene and erratic weather may be among causes, say medics
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, fell by 0.02 per cent to 93.68.
"Ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy today, the central bank has extended its emergency lending programs by three months to the end of 2020. This further stoked USD weakness," Goenka said.
He added that "today is the exchange traded currency derivative expiry for July. We may see some selling on RBI fix on account of the same".
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex was trading 114.89 points lower at 38,378.06 and broader NSE Nifty fell 20.85 points to 11,279.70.
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers in the capital market as they purchased shares worth Rs 245.95 crore on Tuesday, according to provisional exchange data.
Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.14 per cent to USD 43.28 per barrel.
Eating out, poor hand hygiene and erratic weather may be among causes, say medics
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