Covid-19: Punjab CM goes in self-quarantine after attending assembly session

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh during the one-day assembly session.
CHANDIGARH: After attending the one-day assembly session, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has decided to go for week-long self-quarantine. This follows two Congress MLAs testing positive after attending the session in the presence of CM.
“Punjab chief minister @capt_amarinder has decided to go into 7-day self quarantine, as per government protocol and the advise of his doctors, after two MLAs who met him in the Vidhan Sabha tested positive for #COVID19,” tweeted Raveen Thukral, media adviser to the CM.
A negative Covid test report had been made mandatory for the MLAs and officers attending the assembly session that was called out of a constitutional requirement.
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