States »SoutPosted at: Apr 6 2021 9:32PM

COVID-infected Kani casts vote wearing PPE kit

Chennai, Apr 6 (UNI) DMK Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who
was undergoing treatment at a hospital after testing
positive for COVID, on Tuesday evening cast her ballot
by wearing the Personal Protective Equipment kit in the
polling held to elect the 16th Tamil Nadu Assembly.
A number of corona infected patients also voted during
the last one hour from 1800 hrs to 1900 hrs across the
State.
M. Kanimozhi, who is also the DMK's women's wing secretary,
came in an ambulance from the hospital and voted with the
PPE kit on.
She had tested positive for the virus on April 3.
Ahead of the arrival of people infected with the corona,
all personnel on duty in polling stations donned the PPE
kits and facilitated their voting.
The premises were sanitised later.
The last hour of polling was earmarked for corona-infected
voters or those suspected to be infected by the virus.
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