Agartala, Apr 7 (UNI) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb this morning announced that he has been tested positive for Covid-19. Last year, three of his family members were found tested positive but he was safe.
Deb in his Facebook wrote, “I have been tested positive for Covid-19
and I have isolated myself at home as per the advice of doctors. I
request everyone to please follow all the Covid appropriate behaviour
and stay safe.”
Panic gripped the state with the announcement of Chief Minister, as he
had attended a large number of election rallies in the past few days
across the state for Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council
(ADC) elections and closely interacted with thousands of people
including all top bureaucrats in the civil secretariat and security
personnel.
Yesterday, he had also joined a mega programme in front of Tripura
University on the occasion of the celebration of BJP’s foundation day
along with Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma, MLA Ramprasad Pal
and many other leaders of the party.
Allegedly, in the election rallies, Chief Minister was seen closely
interacting with the party supporters and citizens without wearing
proper mask and several media reports criticising such activities of
CM was published requesting him to maintain Covid safety protocol but
those didn’t work.
With the second wave of Covid-19, so far 54 positive cases reported in
the state in last four days and the state administration has issued
alert and guidelines including panel provisions for any violation. No
political leaders including Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues
did follow the guidelines that increased the risk in manifolds.
According to report, second-time infection of Covid-19 has also been
found in the state.
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