India: elections in the state of Bihar, in a context of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Temperature measurement of voters before they can vote.
Indian authorities have decided to hold the state's first legislative election since the Covid-19 epidemic.
Voting has started in the country's 3rd largest state, Bihar.
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By: Sébastien Farcis Follow
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India is organizing its first elections since the Covid-19 health crisis.
Until November 7, more than 70 million voters are called to vote to renew the Regional Assembly in the state of Bihar, in the northeast of the country.
India has succeeded in recent weeks in containing the spread of Covid-19, but the country still remains the second most affected in the world.
And this electoral campaign gathered huge crowds and could therefore give rise to a new peak of contamination.
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