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The Mystery of Covishield Pricing

The announcement of Serum Institute’s prices for state governments and private hospitals raise quite a few questions Serum Institute of India’s (SII) announcement of the Covishield prices it will charge the union...

Too many shortcuts

The DCGI needs to realise that unlike a vaccine will eventually be given to the entire population and that is why it is particularly important to be careful about approving it. The Coronavirus pandemic has tested the...

No Country For Migrant Workers

The pandemic has bared the attitude of the authorities towards workers. As the lockdown keeps getting extended again and again, the attitude of the union government and the state governments towards migrant workers is...

The Looming Supply Shock

Policy makers have been worrying about the consumption slowdown for some time. But the far greater danger could be the supply side choking up. Even before the Coronavirus pandemic upturned the globe, finance ministry...

Liquor is Quicker

Candy may be dandy but alcohol gives immediate revenues to state governments – and that is why they want liquor retailing to be allowed now When the national lockdown was announced, the union government left...

An Exploding Humanitarian Crisis

The 40-day lockdown may well flatten the curve. But for the poor and the ailing, the treatment prescribed may be worse than the disease. Twenty-seven days into the national lockdown, it is apparent that the union...

Wasting a Lockdown

The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had...