Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, while allowing the bail application of the petitioner in one of the cases, said, ‘The number of patients of the new form of corona virus, Omicron, is increasing and there is a possibility of a third wave.’
He said that in view of this horrific epidemic, countries like China, Netherlands, Germany have imposed complete or partial lockdown.
The court said, ‘In the second wave, we saw that lakhs of people got infected and people died.’
He said that a large number of people got infected and died due to Gram Panchayat and West Bengal Assembly elections.
Justice Yadav, while urging the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court to make rules to deal with the situation, said in his order, “Today again the assembly elections are near in UP, for which parties are holding rallies and meetings and crowds of lakhs are gathered.” Is doing. It is not possible to follow the COVID protocol in these programmes. If it is not stopped in time, the result will be more dire than the second wave.
The court requested the Election Commissioner to immediately stop such rallies, gatherings and order political parties to campaign through channels and newspapers.
The court said, “If possible, the elections to be held in February should be postponed for a month or two, because if there is life, then the election rallies, meetings will go on and on and the right to life is given to us as a fundamental in Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.” received as a right.’
The court, while appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the COVID vaccination campaign, urged him to take strict measures in view of the dreadful pandemic situation and consider stopping rallies, gatherings and postponing the impending elections as ‘Jaan hai to jahan hai’.
Justice Yadav said, ‘Our honorable Prime Minister has started a corona-free vaccination program in a country with such a large population. It is commendable and the court appreciates it.
The court made the above observations while allowing the bail application of a person named Sanjay Yadav.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to implement state-wide night corona curfew from Saturday (December 25) in view of the increase in the cases of COVID-19 in various states of the country. Nightly Corona Curfew will be effective from 11 pm to 5 am in the state.
Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said in a statement issued on Friday that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the high-level team that various states of the country are witnessing an increase in the cases of COVID-19, in such a situation some strict steps are being taken. needs to be picked up.
The Chief Minister directed that the statewide night corona curfew should be implemented from Saturday 25 December and night corona curfew will be applicable every day from 11 pm to 5 am.
He said that participation of maximum 200 people should be allowed in public events like weddings etc. with the COVID protocol and the organizer will inform the local administration.
According to the statement, the Chief Minister also instructed that traders should be made aware of the market with the message of ‘no mask, no goods’ and no shopkeeper should give goods to the customer without a mask.
According to the statement, masks should be made mandatory for everyone in the streets or markets and the police force should patrol continuously.
It has also been said that every person coming to the border of Uttar Pradesh from any state of the country or from abroad should be continuously monitored and his health should be monitored and extra vigilance should be taken at the bus, railway and airport.
It has been said that the monitoring committees have done commendable work in Corona management. He said that monitoring committees should be reactivated in villages and urban wards in view of the third wave.
He said that every person coming from outside should be tested and their health should be continuously monitored. People should be quarantined as needed, admitted to hospitals.
He said, ‘In view of the possibility of third wave of COVID-19, we have made systematic preparations in the past, which should be re-examined. Medical facilities available in all government or private medical institutions of the state should be examined closely. Re-activate COVID-19 help desk and day care center in industrial units.
The officials informed that due to the correct implementation of the policy of ‘tracing, testing, treatment’ (ie examination of the patient, monitoring his health and his treatment) and vaccination to prevent COVID-19, the situation is under control in the state and last 24 A total of 49 new infected were confirmed in the examination of one lakh 91 thousand 428 samples done in an hour. In the same period, 12 people were treated and freed from corona virus infection.
(with input from news agency language)
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