New Delhi, Nov 23 : The Supreme Court on Monday said Covid situation in Delhi have worsened in the last two weeks and sought a status report from the Arvind Kejriwal government to examine the bottlenecks in connection with the pandemic management.
The top court also pulled up other state governments — Gujarat and Maharashtra — over the worsening Covid situation and asked them to file status reports.
The top court noted that in November there has been a spike in the Covid-19 cases across the country.
The bench asked all states to file status reports in two days detailing steps taken, and also steps in the pipeline and the nature of assistance required from the Centre to build a robust response to address the pandemic.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, representing Delhi government, submitted before the top court that an expert committee has been constituted and the government had informed the court about it in July.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that the Centre has taken steps to improve the situation in Delhi.
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