COVID-19 Pandemic

The Supreme Court has decided to take up only urgent matters from April 22, 2021, in view of the current increase in COVID-19 cases in the National Capital City of Delhi. It has also adjourned all the matters which were earlier listed on April 22.

The Delhi High Court has revived its earlier circular allowing service of all documents, Notices, Summons and Daks to be effected through E-mail, Fax and WhatsApp till April 24.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to provide the Covid-19 vaccination to people belonging to the age group of 18 to 44 years and above in view of the rapid spread of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The bench directed the rest of the states to file a reply and comply with the submission made by Kothari.

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to Centre, Delhi govt for deciding upon the beneficiaries of Covid-19 vaccination drive.

The High Court bench while hearing the plea of Dr Vikram Singh issued notice to the Election Commission of India and the Ministry of Home Affairs and sought their response by April 30.

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, causing further disruption to progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the most.

The emergence of new variants has made vaccination and Covid-appropriate behaviour all the more imperative. The second wave will be more transmissible than the first, but may not last long.

Earlier in previous SOP issued on March 5, the Supreme Court decided to begin a hybrid mode of hearing on an experimental basis from March 15.

An unregistered association of the parents of the students filed the PIL seeking to interdict the steps being pursued to collect the tuition fees till proper fixation of the fees as per the Chhattisgarh Non-Government Schools Fees Regulation Act, 2020.