India coronavirus dispatch: Does smoking really prevent virus infection?

Here is a round-up of important articles on Covid-19 from across Indian publications — From lockdown in Antarctica, to uncovering the regional parameters of Covid-19, and how vulnerable the homeless are — read these and more in today’s India dispatch.

Expert Speak

Relaxing labour laws can’t help industry in the long run; formalising the economy can: Though firms seemingly have an upper hand if labour laws — which protect workers’ rights — are relaxed, in reality, as a result of weak labour laws, firms will have to work with labour that “owes no allegiance to the organisation”.