Delta variant 60% more transmissible, reduces vaccine effect, UK experts say

The Delta variant is 50% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK, experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) said. The rapid surge in cases during Delhiā€™s fourth Covid-19 wave was mainly driven by the…

Covid-19: India may see 10% unemployment rate in May as local lockdowns hit jobs

The unemployment rate in India is likely to cross 10 per cent in May due to stricter restrictions across states amid the ongoing second Covid-19 wave. Employment in urban areas has taken a harder knock this month. With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic far from over in India, states are likely to go slow on the…