The trillion dollar question: Will the virus wreck the economy, again?

Never before have Indians been this desperate, looking for a hospital bed and a few deep breaths of oxygen. As the nation faces the brutal second wave of Covid-19 — 3.46 lakh new cases and 2,624 deaths in the last 24 hours — hospitals and diagnostic centres in most cities are overwhelmed. And with migrant labourers rushing back to their villages in the middle of multiple curfews and semi-lockdowns, the newer lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 are