Supreme Court okays Rs 50,000 compensation for Covid-19 victims
The Bench said that the compensation would be disbursed from state disaster relief funds within 30 days of submitting application
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FILE PIC: A woman mourns after her husband died due to the coronavirus disease outside a mortuary of a COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad (Photo: Reuters)
The Supreme Court on Monday said no state should deny the ex-gratia compensation of Rs 50,000, as recommended by National Disaster Management Authority, to the kin of persons who died of Covid-19 on the sole ground that death certificate does not mention it as the cause of death.
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