Covid-positive teen ‘illegally detained’ at Delhi hospital, mother moves HC

The petitioner claimed that her son was in isolation in a private hospital and was not being discharged to await the result of the genome sequencing test.

The Delhi High Court’s vacation bench is hearing a plea by the mother of a Covid-19 patient, who says that her 18-year-old son has been “detained illegally" in hospital isolation since landing in Delhi on December 24.

The mother of the patient said, “We have been waiting for genome sequencing test report and RTPCR test and he's languishing in the hospital. We shifted him from LNJP to Fortis on December 25 because the LNJP hospital was not good. He couldn't even use the toilet there.”