Omicron? What Omicron?

IMAGE: Section 144 of the Indian Penal Code -- prohibiting the gathering of four or more people at one spot -- is in force in Mumbai to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and its Omicron variant.
You wouldn't know that from this scene from the city's Juhu beach on Thursday, December 23, 2021. Photograph: Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters

IMAGE: Despite the Omicron threat, which has rattled both the central and Delhi governments and forced emergency measures in place, this scene from a Delhi market, December 23, 2021, reveals what Delhi-ites think of COVID-19. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters