New Delhi: At least 5 candidates contesting West Bengal Assembly elections have examined constructive for COVID-19. Out of those that examined constructive for the coronavirus, three are from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and one every from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), PTI quoted a well being division official as saying.Â
73-year-old Pradip Kumar Nandi from RSP, examined constructive on Wednesday and is at the moment present process dwelling isolation, the official stated.
BJP’S candidate for Matigara-Naxalbari seat Anandamay Barman (38), TMC’s Goalpokhar nominee Mohmmed Ghulam Rabbani, Tapan candidate Kalpana Kisku, and Jalpaiguri candidate Dr Pradip Kumar Barma are amongst those that have been contaminated with COVID-19, the well being official revealed.Â
Candidates who test COVID-19 constructive have been directed to cease their election campaigns and requested to endure self-isolation. “The candidates who tested positive must immediately stop campaigning. Either they should isolate themselves at their homes or get themselves hospitalised depending on severity of the infection,” PTI quoted an official as saying.
Meanwhile, Congress nominee from Samsherganj meeting constituency in Murshidabad district, Rezaul Haque, who had been contaminated with the virus, died at a hospital right here early on Thursday (April 15).Â
West Bengal on Thursday registered a file 6,769 new COVID-19 instances whereas 22 sufferers succumbed to the an infection.Â
The state will witness its fifth phase of polling on Saturday (April 17) which is able to resolve the destiny of 342 candidates. Voting can be held at 15,789 polling stations within the 45 constituencies- 16 seats in North 24 Parganas, eight every in Purba Bardhaman and Nadia, seven in Jalpaiguri, 5 in Darjeeling and one in Kalimpong district.
The eight phased Assembly elections will finish on April 29. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.Â
