High Court points to differences between Gujarat government’s affidavit & ground reality
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Justice Bhargav Karia of the Gujarat HC told the state government, “You cannot sit in an ivory tower and decide that we will solve this crisis like this.” He said that the government affidavit “does not reflect any of the ground reality that is reported everyday, everywhere.”
ET Bureau
The Gujarat High Court has said that there were differences between the affidavit presented by the government on the Covid situation in the state and the ground reality. Laying bare the harsh realities, the court has questioned the state health infrastructure’s preparedness to tackle the projected half-a-million Covid cases expected in the next 15 days and the current practice being observed by hospitals run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to refuse to admit patients who don’t furnish an Ahmedabad Aadhaar Card or who don’t arrive by the ‘108 ambulances’.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 18April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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New US cases of the coronavirus continued to inch a bit higher this week, while deaths attributed to the virus continued to fall. New Covid infections during the week ending April 17th were 2.2% higher than during the week ending April 10th, and up 26.5% from the 7 days ending March 16th (a six month low), but still down 72.6% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.5% from the prior week, and down 78.7%
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