Following the COVID-19 norms

  (Source: The Hindu)

Despite a mandate on compulsory wearing of masks and distancing in public places, the election season has led to the guidelines being thrown to the wind. Offices of parties, especially, are seeing cadre turn up without masks. The BJP has now brought in medical staff to keep a check on the temperature and blood pressure of those turning up at its office, in view of an increase in COVID-19 cases in the city. Mask compliance, however, is low — a feature seen across parties.