Mumbai: The State Government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that allowed everyone, regardless of their vaccination status, to travel with public transportation not only to endanger life but also negates all its efforts taken so far to prevent Covid-19 transmission .
“Allowing people who are not vaccinated to mix with people using public transportation will only endanger life and invite the transmission of explosive coronavirus and the next variant, and the Maharashtra government, as Parens Patriae (country as a protector), is unable to risk it,” said , in return for two pilns by Feroze Mithiborwala and Yohan Tengra to allow people who are not vaccinated to travel by local trains.
On December 15, a bench led by the Chairman of the Datta Judge, Head of the Main Secretary of Debashish Chakrabarty, who is also a member of the State Disaster Management Authority, to explain the reason for the distribution of people who were vaccinated and not nerved to be passed by local trains.
Explain “logic”, Chakrabarty said people who were vaccinated doubled, even if he contracted Covid infection, it was expected to reduce the opportunity to live in hospitals or oxygen needs.
“This is a rare and stretched public resource in the last wave,” he added.
Furthermore, that although in-house oxygen production increases, demand cannot be loaded without residents is fully vaccinated.
“There are no citizens who can preach their fundamental rights to be reckless to bring pressure on resources such as oxygen and hospitals that must be considered rare public resources,” he added.
“Unfortunately, the problem is not over.
There is a possibility of the third wave, and there is also the possibility of the spread of a new variant of the virus known as Omicron,” he said.
The reply said restrictions on unbaccinated people apply not only for local train services but “all types of public transportation.” Also, it will be a “reasonable restriction” under the constitution in a larger public interest.
The reply said before the pandemic, the average number of people traveling by local trains on the middle and western railroad lines was almost 80 lakh per day.
Compared to only on December 20, 2021 it was 37.33 lakh in CR and 28.82 lakh on WR.
The judge posted the trial on January 3.