{"id":165970,"date":"2021-05-13T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=165970"},"modified":"2021-05-15T16:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T10:44:38","slug":"covid-19-third-wave-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/cover-story-articles\/il-feature-news\/covid-19-third-wave-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 third wave: Preparing for the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Till date, the Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong> and various High Courts had expressed their concerns over the deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country. But now courts are also looking ahead and trying to instil some planning in governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The apex court recently asked the centre to prepare for the third wave as the latter submitted a plan for allocating oxygen to states on the basis of beds. The Court said that it requires a complete revamp and asked the centre for a plan for logistics. It said that the third wave of the pandemic was round the corner and it was time to start preparing for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThird wave comes how will you deal with it? Scientists saying children will be affected and they can go into hospitals and have to be accompanied by mother or father,\u201d the Court said. \u201cPrepare today to handle stage 3 of Covid. Children may be affected during the third wave, ensure vaccination of children. Bolster your infrastructure to deal with the third wave, rope in NEET aspirants and nurses,\u201d the Court said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Experts have warned that the third wave is due between October and December and will hit children in a big way. They have urged both the centre and state governments to chalk out strategies and gear up to handle the situation. The Court urged the Centre to deploy doctors who had completed their internships to deal with the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Madras High Court <\/a><\/strong>too gave orders on similar lines. On May 10, 2021, a division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthil\u00adkumar Ramamoorthy said that central and state governments, instead of being under-prepared and later ruing for not having put in place additional resources, should be \u201cover-prepared\u201d to tackle the crisis if there is a third wave of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Health experts have indicated that the world could see a third wave of the infection after the second wave recedes. \u201cThe Governments must prepare for the worst and hope that the worst does not hit us,\u201d said the judges. They said that the state and the centre should find ways of effective supply of oxygen to the western and southern districts, which were closer to Kerala, as supply from Sriperumbudur in north Tamil Nadu or elsewhere might be logistically difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n