FILE - In this April 25, 2021, file photo, relatives and municipal workers in protective suit bury a COVID-19 victim in Gauhati, India. Despite clear signs that India was being swamped by another surge of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to cancel campaign rallies, a major Hindu festival and cricket matches with spectators. The crisis has badly dented Modi’s carefully cultivated image as an able technocrat. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

FILE - In this April 24, 2021, file photo, exhausted workers who carried the dead for cremation sit on the rear step of an ambulance in New Delhi, India. As deaths mount and a vaccine rollout falters badly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed much of the responsibility for fighting the outbreak onto unprepared and poorly equipped state governments. The crisis has badly dented Modi’s carefully cultivated image as an able technocrat. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)