Kolkata orders lockdown after 'super-spreader' election

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All offices, stores and public transport in West Bengal are told to close for 15 days. FMTNews Kolkota Covid19

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Voters display identity cards as they wait to cast their votes at a polling station in Kolkata last month.

West Bengal along with a host of southern states are bearing the brunt of a Covid-19 surge in India that has taken the nation’s infection total to nearly 25 million with more than 265,000 deaths. Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew tens of thousands of people to rallies in the region last month ahead of state elections in which his ruling nationalist party failed to unseat Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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