The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given a nod to in-person voting for quarantined coronavirus patients in the US on Tuesday, reported The Fox News.

“Voters have the right to vote, regardless of whether they are sick or in quarantine,” CDC said on its website.

The CDC advised taking steps to protect others, like wearing a mask, maintaining proper distance and practicing hand hygiene both before and after voting. Infected individuals should also let poll workers know they are ill or under quarantine upon arrival.

“Coronavirus-ill people should minimise the amount of time spent at the polls. This may be possible by filling out registration forms in advance and bringing along filled-in sample ballots. The more prepared you are, the less time you may have to spend at the voting site,” the CDC wrote.

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Dr David Thomas, chief of the division of infectious diseases and professor at Johns Hopkins University, told Fox News he doesn’t endorse symptomatic or confirmed infected individuals coming into a public space without advance precautions.

“In my view, the right of the general public to vote safely and the right of the volunteer poll workers to reasonable protection override the right of an individual to vote, IF by voting one person puts others at risk,” Thomas wrote in an emailed statement.

 “To me, the key is whether provisions can be made in advance for symptomatic people to vote safely,” he said.