›Delhi HC expresses concern over COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage, calls for need of gas plants in big hospitals
Delhi HC expresses concern over COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage, calls for need of gas plants in big hospitals
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Delhi HC expresses concern over COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage, calls for need of gas plants in big hospitalsPTI
Last Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 10:07 PM IST
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Synopsis We will go through the Supreme Court s order and if need arises, will hear the matter on Monday. If you (Centre) are doing something, it saves us from passing an order. Everyday people are dying. We are fed up of hearing this daily. SOS calls and messages are received daily. It is straining the whole city, it said.
The High Court asked the government to examine this aspect and inform it on Monday.
New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court Friday cited data to ask the AAP government to explain why COVID-19 testing has gone down drastically in the national capital.
A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli noted that while earlier the testing was around one lakh, now it has reduced to 70-80,000 per day. Your testing has gone down drastically., the bench said and asked the Delhi government to explain it.
Advocate Ankur Mahindroo, representing a petitioner, said there was no headway in testing and the government can start with RAT at mohalla clinics and mobile clinics but the testing shall not be stalled.
HC asks Kejriwal government to explain why COVID-19 testing has drastically gone down
Advocate Ankur Mahindroo, representing a petitioner, said there was no headway in testing and the government can start with RAT at mohalla clinics and mobile clinics.
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Multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims burn as relatives perform last rites at a crematorium in New Delhi. (Photo | AP) By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Friday cited data to ask the AAP government to explain why COVID-19 testing has gone down drastically in the national capital.
A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli noted that while earlier the testing was around one lakh, now it has reduced to 70-80,000 per day.
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The bench was hearing two separate pleas by two private hospitals, which were running out of medical oxygen, seeking immediate supply of oxygen to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients.