Millions of people voted in the final phase of the election in the West Bengal state, despite the contamination and death from Covid-19 increased a record.

Long-term voters appear outside the voting points in West Bengal today, under the hot heat harshly.

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Nearly 8.5 million people qualify for voting in the eighth vote in the state.

Tooking violence occurs in some electoral areas.

Voters queue waiting for voting at an election point in West Bengal state today.

Thousands of people were killed in political violence in West Bengal for decades and voting this year, held in 8 stages in a month, also led to deadly clashes between confrontation parties.

"In accordance with Prevention of Covid-19, I called on people to vote and enrich the democratic festival," said Modi twitter today.

The election campaigns with the attendance of the crowd are mainly not wearing a mask, including in West Bengal, with large religious festivals, which are said to cause India to endure the outbreak of Covid-19

Major cities like the New Delhi capital and Mumbai Financial Center are the most severely influenced places of this outbreak, but the infection is also growing rapidly in West Bengal and the state's Kolkata capital.

"Just one of the two people in Kolkata and the suburbs of viruses when tested," Firhad Hakim, Kolkata officials, said.

The data of the state health agency shows only 17,000 new cases among 55,000 tests done today.

Nearly 30 million voters also expected to vote today in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and also a heavily influenced in epidemic.

India today records nearly 380,000 cases of infections and over 3,600 deaths, the highest level since the beginning of the epidemic and higher than any country in the world.