There was a perceptible slowdown in key weekly economic indicators amid rising cases of Covid-19. India detected 1,79,723 cases in 24 hours, shows government data on January 10. Daily cases have gone up multifold in the last ten days as the country battles a new Covid-19 variant Omicron.

       Growth in workplace visits dropped to 2.4 per cent compared to times before the pandemic took hold. Growth had touched 7.6 per cent towards the end of December, shows mobility data from search engine Google. It uses anonymised location data to track how people are moving during the pandemic. Retail ...