SC Suggests: Free Tests For Covid-19 Should Be Provided

New Delhi: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court (SC) gives advice that all the checkups to discover Corornavirus should be provided free of cost to patients. The court also suggested the Central Government start a procedure of giving reimbursement for the same.

Justice Ashok Bhushan, a bench headed, advised that the free of cost tests should be provided in the identified private laboratories during video-conferencing. He also said that the court would pass the official order soon on the matter.

Petitioner and lawyer, Shashank Deo Sudhi, file a PIL on the apex court. He was seeking direction for the respective authorities and Central Government to provide the zero fees testing facility for Coronavirus to the citizens of the country.

On the other hand, Sudhi said that Coronavirus testing is expensive and not affordable to all. So, the Central Government should take some steps to provide an inexpensive or free testing facility for Coronavirus kits to all.

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