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Gauhati HC Issues Notices to Centre, Assam Govt Over Harassment Meted Out to Non-Covid Patients
Hearing PIL by the Leader of Opposition of Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia, a division bench comprising Chief Justice (Acting) N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Manish Choudhury asked the respondents to reply within three weeks.
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The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre and the Assam government over alleged denial of proper treatment to non-COVID patients in hospitals across the state. Hearing PIL by the Leader of Opposition of Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia, a division bench comprising Chief Justice (Acting) N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Manish Choudhury asked the respondents to reply within three weeks.
“Also, until now, according to scientists, the most important thing is that despite this mutation, there is no negative impact on all the vaccines that are being developed in India,” he said.
Paul said “all the samples” collected “recently” in the laboratories that conduct genetic sequencing have been “prioritised” since Monday. “This is being done in a much more extensive manner and at a faster pace. CSIR, ICMR and DBT are working together,” he said.
He said that experts from India had a detailed conversation with their counterparts in the UK on Monday. “As of now, based on our discussions with scientists in the UK and deep understanding of the data available, there is no cause for concern or panic. Is it a cause for us to be more vigilant? Of course, yes… also with the new variant, there is no change in our treatment guidelines,” Paul said.
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India continues to witness a steady decline in daily new coronavirus infections as only 19,556 new COVID-19 cases were reported in last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. With the addition of new cases, the country s coronavirus count reached 1,00,75,116 on Tuesday. At present, the active coronavirus cases in the country dropped to 2,92,518 after 30,376 new recoveries were recorded. The overall recoveries have now mounted to 96,36,487. As per Health Ministry 301 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 1,46,111. Kerala has 60,670 active coronavirus cases, the highest in the country, Maharashtra follows with 60,593. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 16,31,70,557 samples tested for COVID-19 up to December 21, of these, 10,72,228 samples were tested on Monday.