Chennai: DMK Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who’s being handled for COVID-19 voted at a polling station by wearing the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit on Tuesday (April 6).
Also, quite a few others being handled for the virus voted in Chennai and in other elements of Tamil Nadu, reported information company ANI.
Kanimozhi, additionally DMK’s ladies’s wing secretary, arrived in an ambulance from the hospital the place she is being handled for the an infection and voted with the PPE kit on. She had examined optimistic for the virus on April 3.
Ahead of the arrival of people contaminated with the coronavirus, all personnel in polling stations donned the PPE kits and facilitated their voting. The premises had been sanitised later.
The final hour (6 pm-7 pm) of polling was earmarked for COVID-19-infected voters or these suspected to be contaminated by the virus.
The complete variety of people, who selected to vote utilizing PPEs regardless of being contaminated by the virus, just isn’t recognized instantly.
Voter turnout crossed 60 per cent in Tamil Nadu by night as polling continued peacefully with key leaders together with AIADMK’s Okay Palaniswami, O Panneerselvam and DMK chief M Okay Stalin exercising their franchise for the April 6 meeting polls.
Sporadic, ballot associated minor incidents had been, nonetheless, reported from a few locations although there have been no main untoward incidents.
Till 5 pm, the polling was 63.60 per cent, Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo instructed reporters.
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