pandemic, and now as
vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more normal
future. There s never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces.
Please support our work by subscribing today.
India reports 400,000 new COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 patients receive oxygen outside a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 1, 2021. India on Saturday set yet another daily global record with 401,993 new cases, taking its tally to more than 19.1 million. Another 3,523 people died in the past 24 hours, raising the overall fatalities to 211,853, according to the Health Ministry. Experts believe both figures are an undercount. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma)
The BJP, which is in power in India in the state elections, has suffered a setback
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a major political setback on Sunday when his Bharatiya Janata party failed to seize power in the West Bengal state, accused of helping to spark a second strong wave of Covid-19 cases in the country as a result of an aggressive election campaign.
The setbacks The public outrage in the Modi government is growing manipulation in the case of the pandemic, about 400,000 new infections in India were recorded on the second day in a row.
“It’s a blow to the BJP,” said Gilles Verniers, a political scientist at Ashoka University. “The message is that the Modi brand is disappearing on its own and that it is not enough to compensate for the proper organization and lack of it. governance“.
China social media post mocks India Covid crisis
A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese Communist party has sparked controversy for appearing to mock India over its coronavirus crisis.
The post on Chinese site Weibo showed an image of a rocket launch in China alongside a photo of the bodies of Covid victims being cremated in India.
Text with it read: Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India.
The post, which appeared on Saturday afternoon, has since been deleted.
It was reportedly published by an account belonging to an official Chinese law enforcement agency - the Communist Party s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - which has millions of followers on Weibo, a popular microblogging site in the country.