HC pulls Delhi Govt for poor facilities at JNU COVID centre

On May 13, the court had directed that a Covid care centre be set up at JNU for immediate isolation of residents testing positive for coronavirus as the number of infections on the campus was "quite high".

The court issued the order after it was told that a Covid Task Force and a Covid Response Team were already working inside the campus.

On May 28, the JNU administration had told the court that a site for setting up the Covid centre had been identified and communicated to the concerned sub-divisional magistrate as well as the Delhi government. It said that the Delhi government had to provide doctors, nursing staff and the required infrastructure to run the facility.

In response, the city government had said that its health department was looking into the matter.

In its petition filed during the second wave of the pandemic, JNU Teachers Association, JNU Students Association and two faculty members, who were represented by advocate Abhik Chimni, had claimed that the university administration did not respond to their repeated requests for setting up a Covid care facility.