India’s ferocious second wave of COVID infections is likely to have caused the economy to contract by about 5% over Q2 as a whole. The good news is that the outbreak is quickly subsiding and activity appears to have bottomed out. But the recovery is likely to be slower than last year. Under those circumstances, the RBI is likely to keep policy very accommodative for a long while yet.
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