Covid First Wave News Today

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia alleged that the Assam chief minister gave contracts to companies of his wife and son's business partners to supply PPE kits at "exorbitant rates" in 2020.

We keep getting messages from department, asking us to update the number of Covid patients treated, and we keep entering zeros, says a doc

With Indias remotest landlocked state Tripura witnessing a construction boom, many school dropouts are brought here to work as migrant labourers to meet the unorganised industrys hunger for cheap labour.

“For the new age investor, I would suggest a 30-40-30 allocation, 30% on the predictable earnings stream, 40% on the cyclicals going to a V-shape takeoff scheme and another 30% in the simple to understand but new to the capital markets businesses via IPOs or post IPO through the market.”

Experts state that the death ratio in both these groups is similar in both waves as there were many youngsters who were vulnerable

Covid has created disruption in the semi-urban and rural areas, which were untouched in the first wave. The global commodity prices are also on an upswing