New Delhi: Amid rising cases of covid-19 in many states of the country, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath canceled his event in Noida, and political party Congress stopped its political rallies. Thousands of people who came into Congress – were without a mask.
It is unclear if the ruling BJP plans to follow the Congress’ lead in scrapping all political events and rallies, which draw crowds of thousands that make it difficult to maintain Covid safety protocols – as concern spreads over the third wave of infections led by the more transmissible Omicron strain.
In scary visuals from Tuesday, where hundreds of women and teen girls were seen without masks at a marathon organized by the Congress as part of its ‘ladki hun, lad sakti hun‘ election campaign.
The Allahabad High Court last month asked the Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to defer the UP polls, if only by a few months. However, after a meeting between Union Health Ministry and the Election Commission, it was announced the polls would be held as scheduled.
This morning India logged 58,097 new COVID-19 cases – a daily increase for the sixth time in nine days.
(_Vinayak Barot)
