Kerala To Add 7,000 Undocumented Covid Deaths To Official List
NDTV
Kerala Health Minister Veena George said the 7,000 more COVID-19 deaths had occurred before the hospitals started uploading the data of such deaths online.
Amid protest by the opposition alleging under-reporting of COVID deaths in Kerala, the state government on Friday decided to include 7,000 more victims of the pandemic in its official death list.
State Health Minister Veena George said 7,000 more deaths, which occurred before the hospitals started uploading the data of such deaths online, will be added to the COVID death list in the state.The hospitals started uploading the COVID-19 deaths online in June this year.
These are deaths that have not been documented and added to the official death list, she told reporters.
When the matter came up in the Assembly on Friday, the minister rejected the opposition charge that a large number of families of COVID victims in the state were being denied the compensation ordered by the Supreme Court and said no deserving family would be excluded from the financial aid in the southern state.
