PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 27 -- The Allahabad high court has held that a claim for ex-gratia assistance of Rs.50 lakh under the government's Covid-19 scheme cannot be rejected merely for want of a positive RT-PCR report when the government hospital's own records show a positive antigen test result and the authorities themselves accept the infection and the cause of death.

A bench of Justices Prakash Padia and Garima Prashad, while allowing a petition filed by one Archana Singh, observed, "Where the Government hospital's contemporaneous records expressly record a positive antigen result and the respondents accept the infection and cause of death, the absence of a separate copy of the test report cannot be treated as absence of proof of Covid-19." ...