India Coronavirus Dispatch: Challenges in claiming death insurance

Cases growing fastest in India, how vaccine nationalism threatens to block recovery, and how schools can make up for the lost time-roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pandemic.

Managing Covid-19

Families of frontline workers who died of Covid-19 struggle to get insurance money: Ambika P K, a 46-year-old nurse working in a private hospital in Delhi, died on May 25, days after she tested positive for Covid-19. But her children are struggling to claim the Rs50 lakh insurance promised from the central government. The reason: they cannot prove Ambika was involved in the treatment of Covid-19 patients and even the hospital has refused to certify that. This is not a standalone case. Read more here

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