Whatever be the cause of death of covid patient, it should be considered as death due to corona

Allahabad High Court Decision: The Allahabad High Court has said that if a person is admitted to the hospital as a patient of Kovid-19 If his death is due to heart failure or due to any other reason, this death will be considered as death due to Kovid-19 and the government will have to give ex-gratia amount to the relatives of the deceased.

Accepting the writ petition filed by Kusum Lata Yadav and several others, a division bench of Justice AR Masoodi and Justice Vikram D Chauhan directed the state authorities to pay ex-gratia amount within a month to the families of dependents of those who died of COVID-19. and asked to pay interest at the rate of nine per cent in case of failure to make payment.

Kin of the deceased entitled to compensation

So compensation was withheld

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