He made these remarks at a meeting to review the coronavirus situation in the country
The Delhi HC pulled up the AAP govt for not clarifying whether every pregnant woman who goes to a hospital for delivery or urgent treatment is required to undergo Covid-19 test, symptomatic or not
L-G's direction was substituted by the Delhi government's order which did away with the mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for asymptomatic patients
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia inspected 50 isolation coaches stationed at Shakur Basti Railway station on Wednesday
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah questioned the AAP government as to why the FIR was lodged against a doctor
The bench also termed as "completely unacceptable" the Board's stand that it cannot say with certainity when examination of the application forms would be undertaken
The Delhi government also told the bench that total 569 ventilators were available, out of which 315 were being utilised and remaining are available.
The six-member panel also includes two members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria
However, the reasons for not entertaining the two PILs might be indicated in the court's order which is not yet available
Delhi recorded 1,501 fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday taking the Covid-19 tally in the city to over 32,000
A senior doctor in a private hospital said that the government had hired a lot of junior doctors which had added numbers, but had not solved the problem
The move may trigger a confrontation between the AAP dispensation and the LG office.
The bench also directed that issue of delay in contacting the patients by the state/district authorities must be addressed in consultation with ICMR, Aggarwal said
The government is talking to the owners of private hospitals to determine their problems in reserving 20 per cent of their beds for Covid-19 patients, he said
She alleges that her father was not admitted in time by a Delhi government hospital, a charge denied by the authorities of the facility
Earlier, Chief Arvind Minister Kejriwal announced the sealing of borders of the national capital for the next one week citing a surge in Covid-19 cases
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the state government would implement all the relaxations permitted by the Centre
Of the total number of deceased patients, 59 were aged 60 and above, accounting for over 51 per cent of the fatalities, the bulletin said
'We have prepared detailed plan to take over private hospitals if the number of coronavirus cases rises up to 30,000 in Delhi,' said Delhi CM
The government gave 14,345 phone numbers to the Delhi Police on Wednesday to track them, in addition to 11,084 numbers it had shared on Tuesday, he said