SC guidelines for payment of ex gratia of Rs 50000 to families of those who died due to Covid-19

Gaurav Kumar Bansal Vs Union of India and others (Supreme Court of India) i) Covid-19 cases, for the purpose of considering the deaths of the deceased due to Covid-19, are those which are diagnosed through a positive RT-PCR/Molecular Tests/RAT or clinically determined through investigations in a hospital/in-patient facility by a treating physician, while admitted in the hospital/in-patient facility; ii) that the deaths occurring within 30 days from the date of testing or from the date of being clinically determined as a Covid-19 case shall be treated as “Deaths due to Covid-19”, even if th...