From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Scientists world over panicked on arrival of Omicron, a mild variant of Covid-19, in the United States, Britain and many other countries, but their worries are gone as it usually does not require hospitalisation and the disease vanishes in less than a week. A realisation has come that Omicron is turning out to be a natural vaccine that has out-competed the man-made ones.
Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, however, thinks otherwise as he called Omicron on Wednesday as a silent killer. He said: “I suffered in first wave but recovered in four days and but now in this wave, it has been 25 days and I am still suffering.” He said he is taking an unusually long time to recover from the strain.
His remarks came in the wake of Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, pleading that the top court must revert to full physical hearing instead of just two days a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays on the non-miscellaneous days.
The CJI is no medical expert to judge the disease on the basis of his own experience and so bar association president Vikas Singh persisted that “Omicron is much milder.”
The CJI cited “a jump of 15,000 cases now,” apparently based on the official data of the health ministry that put the new Covid-19 infections at 15,702 in 24 hours ending at 8 AM and cited how he was still suffering.
“Your lordship has been unlucky in that regard, but people are recovering fast,” Singh pleaded.
CJI Ramana closed the matter, saying “we will see.”
