In India as many as 1,600 teachers have died from Covid 19 after being drafted in to help run polling stations during local elections in April.

Their union says countless begged to be liberated from election duty, fearing for their own health as India’s deadly second brandish of the pandemic take hold.

Mishal Husain portrays BBC News at Ten reporting by Orla Guerin from the government of Uttar Pradesh.

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