The Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday suspended the hearing of cases by the Indore Bench through video conferencing up to May 3 in view of the COVID-19 spread in the city and as several of its officials had gone into quarantine.
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An employee of the Indore Bench Registry was found positive and some officials had been quarantined, said Rajendra Kumar Vani, Registrar General, in a circular. The quarantined officials include a Judge.
As per the guidelines dated April 15 and 16, it was directed that urgent matters shall be filed through e-filing or through email and hearing may be conducted through video conferencing.
Four persons died of the disease while undergoing treatment on Monday taking the toll to 110, according to the Directorate of Health Services. Three of the deaths were reported from Bhopal and one from Mandsaur.
The State reported 75 cases on the day taking the overall count to 2,165 cases. The tally in Bhopal climbed to 428. So far, 357 patients have recovered from the illness.
In Indore, three persons died of the disease on Sunday while undergoing treatment taking the toll to 60. The duration of stay for the three men at hospitals was between 10 hours and six days, said Pravin Jadia, Indore Chief Medical and Health Officer.
They were aged 55, 65 and 67 and suffered from diabetes and hypertension which hastened the deaths, according to a bulletin issued by the district administration late night on Sunday.
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On the day, 31 persons, or 10% of the 298 samples tested, came out to be positive. The test positivity rate had come down by half from around 20% a day before.
So far, 1,207 persons have tested positive while 123 persons have recovered in the hardest hit city of Madhya Pradesh where 198 containment areas have been drawn up.
“We are planning to deploy at least one team of AYUSH doctors in each containment area,” said Manish Singh, district Collector. “They will distribute ayurvedic medicines so that resistance of locals improves. And in the peripheral areas, the doctors can go around.” The teams, however, would not be deployed in the three main adjoining clusters, where alternative arrangements had already been made.
