The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to set up a portal within 24 hours for the dissemination of real-time information on the coronavirus pandemic to counter the panic being spread through fake news on the virus.
The Supreme Court observed that panic will destroy more lives than the virus and thus asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, who are kept in shelter homes across the country.
A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and L Nageswara Rao asked the Centre to ensure that duties of managing the shelter homes, where migrants are being kept, are consigned to volunteers and not to the police and there should not be any use of force or coercion.
It also asked the government that there must be adequate provisions of drinking water, food, beds and medicines in these shelters.
