Indian votes counted amid Covid surge

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)