A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court orally observed that there must be transparency in the distribution of vaccines
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on May11 asked the State government to inform the court whether the stock details of the coronavirus vaccines could be posted on the COVID-19 Jagratha portal of the State.
The Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan and Justice M.R. Anitha passed the directive when a public interest litigation seeking a directive to disclose the available stock of vaccines with the Central government came up for hearing.
During the hearing of the case, the Bench orally observed that there must be transparency in the distribution of vaccines.
According to the petition, lack of information about the available number of doses had led to chaos and crowding in various vaccination centres. In fact, the vaccine manufacturers’ refusal to disclose their production capacity had created a lot of confusion among the people. If the…
