HC steps up vigil, screens Judges, staff
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 16
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today stepped up vigil in view of the Covid threat. Armed with thermal guns, medical teams went from courtroom to courtroom screening Judges in their chambers. The High Court staff were also subjected to screening.
The High Court also decided to deploy medical teams with thermal guns on each entry gate to check the body temperature of every entrant. In case someone is found having fever, immediate follow-up action will be taken by the medical team. It will include restricting the person’s entry.
The High Court also directed all concerned to avoid human contact with others, not to form gatherings anywhere and to leave the court premises immediately after their work was over. The High Court has already started thermal screening of its visitors, including lawyers, in view of the Covid-19 scare.
As part of the enhanced security arrangements to check the entry of virus-infected people, the visitors to the High Court were being permitted to enter the premises only after they were subjected to screening with hand-held thermal cameras at the entrances by men wearing masks.
The move comes at a time when the Supreme Court and the High Court have limited their functioning and restricted entry into their premises following an advisory issued by the Union Health Ministry on Covid-19. The Haryana Government has already declared Covid-19 an epidemic.
Thermal screening is carried out using screening systems that gauge skin temperature at high speed using thermal imaging and temperature measurement equipment without causing delays and discomfort to the visitors.
