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SC allows 24 weeks pregnant woman to abort malformed foetus

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New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a 24 weeks pregnant woman to abort as the foetus suffers from severe abnormality of not having a skull for which there was no medical remedy.

Allowing the 20-year-old woman to undergo MTP, the bench of Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao, said “We consider it appropriate and in the interest of justice to allow termination of pregnancy.”

The top court’s direction came after perusing the report from a medical board which examined the woman.

The report was submitted by the medical board of the Pune-based B.J. Government Medical College. The report said that there was no medical treatment of the severe abnormality.

As the court permitted termination of pregnancy, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar informed the court that the Centre has written to all the state governments and the Union Territory administrations to set up permanent medical boards to examine such cases for termination of pregnancy.

He said that this would reduce the time for examining the requests for abortion.

“The government has written to all states and Union Territories to set up such medical boards,” Solicitor General informed the court.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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