A Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court slammed state government-run hospitals for refusing to examine a pregnant woman, who tested positive for COVID-19. Recently, a woman had moved the court in a bid to get her advanced pregnancy terminated after she was found to have contracted the SARS-CoV-2, which causes the viral disease.

While expressing displeasure over the hospital's decision to examine the woman, the bench of the Bombay HC said that COVID-19 patients are not untouchables, reports Hindustan Times. "We fail to understand as to how the COVID-19 patient cannot be clinically examined by doctors," the two-member division bench, comprising of Justices Ravi Deshpande and Pushpa Ganediwala, said.