Surging Omicron Cases Threaten India's Economic Rebound: FT

India has tightened its Covid-19 restrictions as a surge of infections threatens the country’s robust economic rebound from last year’s devastating outbreak of the Delta variant, the Financial Times reported.

The capital New Delhi and several states have imposed night and weekend curfews and restricted capacity at hotels, restaurants, malls and cinemas. But authorities have backed off from introducing measures as onerous as during previous lockdowns in the belief the Omicron variant is less life-threatening.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.