Is Omicron wave now slowly flattening in Delhi, Mumbai or will it spread to other parts of country?

A day after Biocon executive chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw took to Twitter and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow companies to provide booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to their employees, India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to the entrepreneur on how the surge in Covid cases has resulted in a growing demand for booster doses and how has it impacted large companies and the economy.

Delhi recorded 12,527 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, a 31.4 per cent drop from Sunday’s case count. As many as 44,762 Covid-19 tests were conducted on Monday, while 65,621 samples were checked for the virus on Sunday. Mumbai recorded 5,956 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the state. The Covid surge in the metropolitan came down by 1,939 cases from a day ago on Monday.