Maharashtra: State Covid task force seeks week to finalise home vaccination guidelines

The state Covid task force framed draft guidelines for home vaccination and sought a week from Bombay high court to finalise it. HC, granting time when requested by additional government pleader Geeta Shastri, said it perused the draft and it was “proceeding in a positive direction”. Shashtri said the government had to approve it, so HC returned the draft to her, and a copy was not served on the petitioner or BMC.HC was hearing a PIL by advocates Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari for a policy to ensure door-to-door vaccination for elderly, bedridden and specially-abled. On the last date, HC had asked the state to consider and make its stand known. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni said, “We hope and trust that when we take up the PIL next, the state will provide us final guidelines.” tnn