Treat As Covid Death If Infected Person Dies In Hospital: High Court
NDTV
The Allahabad High Court also directed the state authorities to release the financial assistance to the dependents of Covid victims entitled thereto within a month.
The Allahabad High Court has held that once a person admitted to hospital due to coronavirus infection dies, the resulting cause being heart failure or dysfunction of any other organ is immaterial and such cases would nevertheless be treated as Covid deaths.
Allowing writ petitions filed by Kusum Lata Yadav and several others, a division bench comprising Justice AR Masoodi and Justice Vikram D Chauhan directed the state authorities to release the financial assistance to the dependents of Covid victims entitled thereto within a period of one month.
Failing which the claims so allowed shall be made inclusive of simple interest of nine percent, the bench added.
Giving this judgment, the court observed, “We find that deaths having taken place in hospitals on account of COVID-19 fully stand the test of certification."
