From antiviral drugs to oxygen supply: How High Courts have responded to the Covid-19 second wave
The Supreme Court on Thursday said multiple proceedings in High Courts were leading to confusion and diversion of resources.
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A patient lies inside an ambulance waiting in a queue to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad on April 14.
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Reuters/Amit Dave
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that it needed to intervene as the Covid-19 pandemic crisis claimed even more lives and India’s medical resources were impossibly strained.
The bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, who is set to retire on Friday, initiated suo moto proceedings to consider four critical problems relating to the response of the authorities to the pandemic: the supply of oxygen, the supply of essential drugs, the method and manner of vaccination and the state’s powers to declare lockdowns.