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02/05/2021 GMT

Indian votes counted amid Covid surge

BBC World Service - Weekend, Indian votes counted amid Covid surge

Votes are being counted in five states where elections took place last month

Votes are being counted in five Indian states where elections to their assemblies took place last month, amid a surge in coronavirus cases.

India's election commission has promised strict Covid safety rules during the counting, after it came under fire for allowing weeks of campaigning despite fast rising infections. A record 3,689 coronavirus-related deaths were reported on Sunday.

Also in the programme: in Myanmar, a health crisis has followed the coup with doctors refusing to go to work; and we'll be visiting Night Fever, an exhibition for club lovers.	.


(Picture: A man wearing a face shield receives a vaccine in Mumbai.          
Credit: REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas)

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