Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases

It&#x27;s surprising how much worse the covid situation has recently got in India. If you look at the cases graph <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;india&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;india&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure how it&#x27;s gone from declining in Jan to super exponential in Mar&#x2F;April?

Can&#x27;t the chairs of state start acting like CEOs of their countries rather than like royals who need to fly 200 people just to have a chat? They can talk on zoom, all we need to know is &quot;chairman of india spoke to chairman of uk and the following things changed:&quot;

When Theresa May visited India in 2016 the conclusion was that Britain was becoming even less relevant to India given that Brexit meant the UK no longer gave India access to EU markets, and because May refused to increase the amount of Indian student visas.* So I&#x27;m struggling to see why Johnson would fair any better.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-politics-37950198" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-politics-37950198</a>

Really sad what&#x27;s going on over there.