6 judges from the SC down with swine flu; vaccination camps to be set up for prevention

NEW DELHI: Six judges of Supreme Court are down with swine flu. Supreme Court judge justice DY Chandrachud informed the court on Tuesday.

Justice Sanjiv Khanna also came to the court donning a mask.

Chandrachud also informed that a meeting was organized with Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde and SCBA President Dushyant Dave to discuss prevention measures.

On that front, vaccination camps for lawyers and judges will be set up. According to reports, Rs 10 lakh will be spent as aid to inoculate those who can't afford vaccines.

For a fact, six samples from Manipur which were sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune tested negative for coronavirus. But two samples out of those sent tested positive for swine flu.

In January this year, an alert has been sounded in Uttarakhand after 11 people died of swine flu in less than one month, mostly in Dehradun, health officials. Almost one death related to swine flu is being reported after every two days since the first case became known in January in the region. A one-year-old child died of H1N1 virus at a private hospital here, raising fresh concern over the rapidly spreading cases in the hill state. Doctors said though most of the cases were being reported from Dehradun and Haridwar, a couple of people have been affected by the virus in the hill districts of Uttarkashi and Rudraprayag also.

As an acute and necessary step towards preventing the deadly virus of swine flu in the distaste, the Mizoram government has issued a notice banning the import of pigs and piglets. Swine flu is a disease the virus of which generally transmits from pigs and affects both pigs and humankind and hence, the latest move to prevent swine flu taken by the Mizoram government is commendable.

Notably, it is since 2013, the swine flu virus, namely, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) has been costing the lives of over 10,000 swine in Mizoram. Hence, this has been the need of the hour to tackle with this issue and prevent this disease from taking any more life of the pigs. This has been believed that the pigs and piglets imported from Myanmar have carried the disease virus in them as it is there where the disease was known to be prevalent.

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