Staff members demonstrate how to vote at a special polling station for voters quarantined due to exposure to the coronavirus, in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2020. Israel was preparing on Sunday for unprecedented repeat parliamentary elections on Monday, for the third time in less than a year. Some 14 special ballots will be established for the use of hundreds of Israelis who are under mandatory self-quarantine for fear they might have been infected with COVID-19.
Guwahati, An Italian national was on Friday put under observation at a hotel in Tezpur of Assam’s Sonitpur district after he arrived there amidst the coronavirus scare, an official said.
The foreigner, however, did not have any of the classical symptoms of the dreaded disease, which has triggered a global panic. Italy is one of the worst-hit countries after China, where the disease broke out.
The vistor’s samples have been collected and sent here for testing, the official said.
