Allahabad HC asks State Govt to find ways for Vaccination of all in 3-4 Months

The Allahabad High Court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to find ways so that all residents of the state can get vaccinated within 3-4 months' time.

Shivani
Published on: 8 May 2021 4:31 AM GMT
Allahabad HC asks State Govt to find ways for Vaccination of all in 3-4 Months
X

The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to find ways so that all residents of the state can get vaccinated within 3-4 months' time. A division bench of Justices Ajit Kumar and Siddhartha Varma was hearing a plea on the inhuman conditions at quarantine centres and providing better treatment to COVID-19 patients. While the state government mentioned that it had filed a global tender to procure 4 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses, the HC observed that this is a long-drawn process.

Moreover, it asked the UP government's counsel to apprise the court on the next day of the hearing, i.e May 11 on how it plans to expedite the purchase of vaccines from the global market. At present, there are 2,59,844 active novel coronavirus cases in UP while 11,51,571 patients have been discharged and 14,501 deaths have been reported. A total of 1,08,33,277 persons have been inoculated in the state till now, 27,27,107 of them have received the second dose of the vaccine too.

Here are other directives from Allahabad HC:

The Director-General of Police should immediately issue advisory to all the Senior Superintendents/ Superintendents of Police to direct the concerned police officers who have seized or would seize in future articles such as life-saving drugs namely Remdesivir, Oxygen cylinders and oximeters to immediately approach concerned Magistrates within 24 hours for the disposal of such property. He in turn shall dispose of the case properties within three days.

The Additional Advocate General, as well as the Additional Solicitor General of India, should reveal the guidelines prepared for the vaccination programme specific to the physically challenged persons

The Additional Advocate General must brief the court on how the TN government was dealing with the surge of the pandemic in rural and sub-urban areas and smaller cities

Stay tuned with the newstrack to get fastest updates. Click @englishnewstrack to follow us on Facebook and @newstrackmedia to follow on Twitter.

Shivani

Shivani

Next Story