As India’s Covid-19 surge hits embassies, Modi’s image abroad suffers

Last week, a senior Tanzanian diplomat in New Delhi died from Covid-19 after he was refused admission by an overwhelmed city hospital and emergency treatment at an army hospital could not save him. Days later, the Philippine and New Zealand high commissions made an appeal on social media for bottled oxygen amid a nationwide shortage of medical supplies and hospital beds.Some diplomats from a Middle Eastern country have left India in the past 10 days, with one still in Delhi, who asked not to be…

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