Punjab Chief Minister Self Isolates After Assembly Covid +ve MLAs In Meeting

Chandigarh:

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has gone into 7-day house quarantine after he met within the state meeting two MLAs who later examined optimistic for coronavirus, a senior state official mentioned.

“Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has determined to enter 7-day self-quarantine, as per authorities protocol and the recommendation of his medical doctors, after two MLAs who met him within the Vidhan Sabha examined optimistic for COVID-19,” his media officer Raveen Thukral tweeted.

Punjab chief minister @capt_amarinder has determined to enter 7-day self quarantine, as per authorities protocol and the advise of his medical doctors, after two MLAs who met him within the Vidhan Sabha examined optimistic for #COVID19.

— Raveen Thukral (@RT_MediaAdvPbCM) August 28, 2020

29 Punjab MLAs and ministers had examined optimistic for the lethal sickness this week. Mr Singh, 78, had urged the legislators who had been involved with the contaminated MLAs to not attend the one-day meeting session in the present day.

Mr Singh had additionally ordered a number of precautions to be taken for the sleek conduct of the legislative enterprise in the home. He had requested the authorities to put in machines on the home premises, Punjab Bhawan and MLAs’ hostel for fast Covid testing.

Solely those that take a look at destructive inside 48 hours of the meeting session had been allowed to attend the session.

Earlier, Mr Singh had attacked the Aam Aadmi Get together for organising protests amid rising instances of coronavirus.  

The coronavirus instances in Punjab – which had been praised for holding its depend low – are actually rising quickly. The state has reported over 47,800 instances together with 1,256 deaths.

Earlier this month, Punjab had ordered a every day night time curfew – from 7 PM to five AM – and a weekend lockdown in all 167 cities and cities within the state to arrest the expansion of coronavirus within the state.