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Compensate Families Of Those Dead Due To Covid Vaccine Side Effects: Court

The needful in this regard shall be done as expeditiously as possible, the court said. (Representational)Kochi: The Kerala High Court has directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to "expeditiously" frame a policy for identifying those who died due to after effects of COVID-19 immunisation and compensating their dependents.Justice V G Arun directed the NDMA to do the needful "as expeditiously as possible", but within three months of its order dated September 1.The direction was issued after Justice Arun said he himself, in his current jurisdiction, has come across three such cases which claimed that a person who had undergone COVID-19 immunisation had succumbed to the after-effects of vaccination."Therefore, even if the numbers are very few, there are instances where pe...