{"id":25670,"date":"2020-05-18T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/do-not-test-dead-people-for-coronavirus-delhi-govt-to-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:33:26","slug":"do-not-test-dead-people-for-coronavirus-delhi-govt-to-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25670","title":{"rendered":"Do not test dead people for coronavirus: Delhi govt to hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>However, if doctors are satisfied from clinical examination that the cause of death may be coronavirus infection, the dead body may be released as suspect COVID-19 infected dead body, according to an order.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Delhi government has ordered hospitals not to take samples of dead people to test for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo sample for COVID-19 test will be taken of dead body. However, if doctors are satisfied from clinical examination that the cause of death may be COVID-19 infection, the dead body may be released as suspect COVID-19 infected dead body,\u201d read a \u201crevised order\u201d issued on Sunday by Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department, Padmini Singla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFollowing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) will be followed for disposal of the dead bodies of COVID-19 patient\/COVID-19 suspect person,\u201d the revised order said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Delhi government spokesperson said that other states were also not testing dead people for the virus. \u201cMany times, families were insisting for COVID-19 testing of dead bodies before cremation, even if a person died at home as they were scared,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/do-not-test-dead-people-for-coronavirus-delhi-govt-to-hospitals\/article31612788.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, if doctors are satisfied from clinical examination that the cause of death may be coronavirus infection, the dead body may be released as suspect COVID-19 infected dead body, according to an order. The Delhi government has ordered hospitals not to take samples of dead people to test for coronavirus. \u201cNo sample for COVID-19 test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}