Lahore: Justice Tripathi, (62) a former Chief Justice of an Indian State Chhattisgarh High Court, has died due to coronavirus infection in New Delhi. He had been admitted to AIIMS on April 2.
Justice Tripathi had been in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Trauma Care Centre. He was also put on a ventilator after his condition turned critical. Justice Tripathi is one of the four judicial members of the anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal.
India recorded the biggest single-day jump of 2,411 coronavirus cases today, taking the total to 37,776, the Health Ministry said. It said 1,223 deaths linked to the highly infectious COVID-19 have been reported so far. Seventy-one deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
