Centre to pay Rs 50,000 compensation for deaths due to Covid, Supreme Court told
India | Sep 23, 2021, 02:20 PM ISTThe central government also informed that the state will give this amount from the State Disaster Relief Fund.
The central government also informed that the state will give this amount from the State Disaster Relief Fund.
Administering a full dose of a standard blood thinner early to moderately ill hospitalised patients with COVID-19 could halt the formation of blood clots and reduce the risk of severe disease and death, according to a study.
"COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 3,85,000 deaths, a number which is likely to increase further," the Centre in its affidavit said.
Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), with only 351 average daily COVID-19 fatalities reported between December 14-20, India continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million.
Researchers have now found that people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases are at a greater risk of dying at a younger age amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
India's COVID-19 caseload has gone past 92 lakh with 44,376 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 92,22,217, while the death toll climbed to 1,34,699 with 481 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The number of coronavirus cases in Delhi rose to 1,37,677, while the death toll mounted to 4,004 on Sunday. On July 26, there were 21 deaths due to the pathogen, the previous lowest fatality count since July 1.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that there was no virus-related fatality reported in the national capital's biggest coronavirus hospital, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan on Monday.
A mob on Tuesday disrupted the last rites of a COVID-19 victim and forced his family members to flee with the half-burnt body, prompting intervention by the administration which later ensured the cremation at another place as per protocol.
The Delhi government has issued show cause notices to four leading facilities in the national capital, including AIIMS and LNJP Hospital, for "delay in reporting death cases", authorities said on Sunday.
India has so far about 0.2 COVID-19 deaths per lakh population as against the global figure of 4.1, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday, even as the number of fatalities due to coronavirus infection in the country rose to 3,163 and the total cases climbed to 1,01,139.
These are the first cases of death in the BSF due to coronavirus infection and the second among paramilitary forces after a 55-year-old sub-inspector of the CRPF had succumbed to the disease last month.
Martha, the comic's grandmother, passed away due the COVID-19 infection on April 6. Che shared the announcement on Instagram on Wednesday.
A 69-year-old man from Chikkaballapura became the eleventh COVID-19 related fatality in Karnataka taking the toll in the state to 11, state Health Minister B Sriramulu said on Wednesday.
British actor, Hilary Heath, best known for her role in horror movie 'Witchfinder General', has died of complications from coronavirus. She was 74.
A message he posted on Twitter on March 28 suggested that he was suffering from COVID-19. "I always wanted to have a number one - but not this," he wrote alongside a map that shows New York as the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., adding: "In bed on upper west side."
John Prine died on Tuesday at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. According to his family, the cause was complications related to coronavirus, or Covid-19.
In the 1975's Jaws, Fierro played grieving mother to young Alex Kintner (Jeffrey Voorhees), the second victim of the killer great white shark.
Bosworth played a nun opposite of Hepburn in the 1959 classic The Nun's Story. Along with penning bios for Brando and Clift, she also wrote biographies on actress Jane Fonda and famed photographer Diane Arbus, who photographed Bosworth in a Greyhound bus advertisement.
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