HC seeks fresh status report over rising COVID cases
The Hindu
Court suspends physical hearing till further orders
Telangana High Court on Tuesday sought a fresh status report from the State government on the steps taken to contain spread of COVID-19 and proliferation of new virus variant, Omicron.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili, hearing a batch of PIL petitions pertaining to COVID-19, also wanted a report from the expert committee that advises the State government on measures to check the infectious disease. Earlier, counsels appearing for different petitioners requested the HC to instruct the government to consider undertaking all steps to ensure the pandemic did not rise its head like it did in the second wave last year.
Lawyer Chikkudu Prabhakar repeatedly requested the bench to hold hearing of cases in virtual mode in the backdrop of steep rise in COVID cases. He also wanted the government to shut all schools stating that children were said to be more susceptible to the new variant.
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