Tamil Nadu: 35 children in a government-run home shelter in Royapuram, Chennai, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Supreme court today took suo moto cognisance of report as the 35 children in home shelter has tested positive and supreme court has sought status report from Tamil Nadu govt regarding spread of coronavirus in shelter homes and steps taken to safeguard children, reports ANI.
Supreme Court took suo moto cognisance of report that 35 children in a government-run home in Royapuram, Chennai, have tested positive for #COVID19 and sought status report from Tamil Nadu govt regarding spread of coronavirus in shelter homes and steps taken to safeguard children pic.twitter.com/3lvj4JWc7g
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The bench, also comprising Justice Krishna Murari and S. Ravindra Bhat, ordered the Tamil Nadu government to direct the state heath secretary to submit a status report on the issue of spread of covid-19 in the shelter home and the steps taken to safeguard the health of the others.
It will hear the case on keeping children safe from covid-19 in shelter homes across the country on 6 July.
Earlier, Lawyer Vasudha Nagaraj had written a letter to High Court Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan stating that some shelter homes had the potential to spread coronavirus as the authorities clubbed persons suffering from HIV, tuberculosis and ‘possibly COVID-19’ in the same without any policy of isolation.
Stating that she had visited some of the shelter homes, the lawyer said inmates of the homes included women discharged after delivery from hospitals carrying newborn babies and men discharged after critical surgeries. Their attendants too were there.
Tamil Nadu on Wednesday reported 1,927 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest ever single-day spike
