Best of BS Opinion: Unemployment rate, Covid-19 lockdown, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly noted on Monday that the country will have to give importance to the economy as well. While the ongoing lockdown helped in flattening the infection curve, it has severely affected the economy. Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about various aspects of the pandemic

Lives vs livelihoods is a legitimate policy choice at this stage of the game, when the infection curve is flattening, and it is clear that the time has come to lift the lockdown in more meaningful ways than what has been done so far, so that something approaching normalcy