SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea will allow coronavirus patients to vote by mail or as an absentee in this month's parliamentary elections, as campaigning started on Thursday (April 2) and the country grappled with a steady rise in new infections.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - South Korea will allow coronavirus patients to vote by mail or as an absentee in this month's parliamentary elections, as campaigning started on Thursday and the country grappled with a steady rise in new infections.
The some 4,000 patients receiving treatment will be able to case their ballot via mail or early absentee voting, Interior Minister Chin Young said. A two-week campaign period for the election began on Thursday with candidates wearing masks and shunning handshakes and large rallies.
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