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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Gujarat’s Official COVID Toll Is 10k – But it Received 90k Claims for Compensation

Gujarat’s Official COVID Toll Is 10k – But it Received 90k Claims for Compensation

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published Published on Jan 20, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 21, 2022

-TheWire.in

One report suggests that Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh are also underreporting deaths due to COVID-19

Bengaluru: In a strange turn of events, the Gujarat state government informed the Supreme Court on January 16 that it has approved 68,370 claims for ex gratia for COVID-19 victims – while the state’s official cumulative death toll was only 10,094 until then.

According to Times of India, the state wrote in its compliance report for the apex court that it had received 89,633 applications in all. The state offers a sum of Rs 50,000 to the family of every individual who succumbed to the disease.

On January 19, a Twitter account called @BollyNumbers wrote that Gujarat wasn’t alone. Based on similar data, it reported that Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh had also differences disbursed amounts for more claims than what their official COVID-19 tolls indicated.

The account also wrote that four other states had received more claims (as opposed to the number of approved claims) than the official number of COVID-19 deaths, until January 16, 2022: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.

The newspaper quoted unnamed officials in the Gujarat health department saying the state followed the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines: that the deaths of patients with existing comorbidities and/or age-related complications wouldn’t be classified as ‘COVID-19 deaths’ even if they had the disease at the time of death.

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TheWire.in, 20 January, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/gujarats-official-covid-toll-is-10k-but-it-received-90k-claims-for-compensation


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