Best of BS Opinion: Speculations about 2022, spirit of disinvestment & more

Here are the best of BS Opinion pieces of the day

The modest number of daily Covid-19 cases and the fact that the Omicron variant is relatively mild should not lull the government into complacency. And though the burden of responsibility lies with the states, the Centre urgently needs to revise its vaccine policy. First, it can take immediate steps by reducing the gaps between first and second doses and, second, open the country to imports so that vulnerable populations can take a booster shot sooner rather than later, the second edit says. Read it here

In other views:

The top edit says the disinvestment programme should not be reduced to an exercise in which one PSU is forced to buy another. Read it here

Shankar Acharya offers an assessment of what lies ahead in 2022 in terms of economics and geopolitics. Read it here

Ashvin Parekh argues for a fresh approaches to corporate structures in private sector banks. Read it here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

 

‘Even if you have a diminution in severity, if you have a much larger number of individual cases [of Omicron], the fact that you have so many more cases might actually obviate the effect of it being less severe’

 

Anthony Fauci, US President’s top medical adviser