New Delhi: Six Supreme Court judges are down with swine flu, Justice DY Chandrachud announced in court. He added to it that all the judge and lawyers had a meeting with Chief Justice SA Bobde to discuss the situation.

Justice Chandrachud also said that he had asked Chief Justice Bobde to direct the inoculation of those working in the Supreme Court.

Later, Chief Justice SA Bobde met with Supreme Court Bar Association president Dushyant Dave.

Dave said that he is very much concerned about the situation and added to it that the government was setting up a dispensary in the Supreme Court for inoculation and vaccination.

The Indian arm of German software group SAP, last week, said it had shut down all offices in the country for sanitisation after two of its employees in Bengaluru tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

The symptoms that can be observed in the H1N1 virus are that it includes fever, chills and sore throat and is similar to seasonal influenza but has seen higher fatality rates among healthy young adults and higher incidence of viral pneumonia.