Observe protocol, CM tells candidates
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has appealed to all candidates collaborating within the native physique elections and who’ve actively begun their campaigning to keep up utmost warning and observe all COVID-19 protocols in order that there are minimal probabilities of an elevated COVID-19 transmission within the State submit elections.
At a media briefing right here on Monday, he reminded candidates to desist from shaking arms with folks, hugging and different such bodily gestures, particularly assembly the aged, as they might be going to completely different homes in a single day, heightening the danger of potential illness transmission.
Rallies and street exhibits which encourage crowding and shut mingling between folks must be averted in any respect prices.
However, public conferences could also be held, sustaining the restrictions within the variety of folks that may collect and making certain bodily distancing, he stated. All directives issued by the Election Commission with regard to campaigning throughout COVID-19 occasions must be adopted
Mr. Vijayan stated that whereas the State’s COVID-19 case graph was certainly starting to point out a dip and the variety of new circumstances had begun to lower, any laxity within the present vigil can simply trigger the case graph to spike once more, as has occurred within the U.S. and Europe.
He claimed that the methods adopted by the State until date for illness containment and management has been proper on monitor. Weekly averages in new circumstances and recoveries present that the case graph is starting to dip within the State. The energetic case pool within the State, which had 97,417 sufferers on the peak, has come right down to 70,000 and there was additionally a discount within the variety of critically sick sufferers, he claimed.
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