How campaign spiked Covid fatalities, infections in election states

India has been reeling under the second wave of Covid-19, which came at a time when the five poll-bound states were witnessing massive campaign rallies. Read on to know how campaign spiked Covid fatalities, infections in election states.

When West Bengal went for the first of the eight-phase assembly elections on March 27, the seven-day average of daily cases was modest. At that rate, it would have taken 778 days to double the number of cases in the state. From all indications, the virus seemed benign in West Bengal then. But the situation changed dramatically a month and two days later. On April 29, to be precise, when the state had its eighth and final phase of elections, infections spread ferociously.