On Monday, more than half of the Supreme Court (SC) workers tested positive for coronavirus. Following the apex court’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, the Supreme Court judges will now appear for hearings via video conferencing from their homes.
The entire court complex, including courtrooms, is being sanitized, and the benches will sit an hour later than usual on Monday after judges met to discuss the situation.
Benches scheduled to sit at 10.30 a.m. will sit at 11.30 a.m., and those scheduled to sit at 1 a.m. will sit at 12 p.m., according to the Additional Registrar, DEU said.
Several benches, headed by CJI S A Bodbe and justices UU Lalit, Ashok Bhushan, KM Joseph, and R. Subhash Reddy, will now convene in the courtrooms an hour late.
Meanwhile, the SC secretary-general has stated that they are compiling data on the COVID spread as touch tracing is being carried out. On Sunday, April 11, Delhi experienced the biggest one-day jump in coronavirus cases to date.
A total of 10,774 new cases were registered, bringing the total number of cases in the national capital to 7,25,197. With 48 new deaths, Delhi’s death toll now stands at 11,283, with 6.79 lakh COVID-19 patients having recovered so far.
Meanwhile, India reported a staggering 168,912 coronavirus cases overnight, according to data released by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, surpassing Brazil to become the world’s second-most affected country by COVID-19. According to Reuters, India’s gross caseload has surpassed Brazil’s 13.45 million. Of 31.2 million COVID-19 incidents, the United States (US) led the global count.
The nation currently leads the world in terms of the daily total number of new infections recorded in more than two weeks, accounting for one out of every six infections reported globally per day.
The nation has administered over 10.45 crore vaccine doses so far, with over 29.33 lakh doses administered in the last 24 hours.
