Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa at a function celebrating one year in power in the State at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Monday. | Photo Credit:
K. Murali Kumar
Sources say he was keen to be seen in public to give out a message of confidence to the people to resume work taking all precautions.
How did Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa contract COVID-19, is a question that officials from the health department are presently grappling with. Given that the chief minister, who had desisted from any public events since March suddenly seemed to return to normalcy and attended four public events in the last week, contact tracing may be an impossible task, a senior official said. “He mostly contracted the infection from one of these public events,” the official said.
“In hindsight, the public engagements of the chief minister over the past one week were definitely ill advised. But given we had unlocked the economy, he was keen to be seen in public to give out a message of conf