In mid-August, Health Minister K.K. The death rate, too, was likely to go up if the spread of the virus went beyond the carrying capacity of health care facilities, she said. Many organisations, including the Indian Medical Association, raised concerns about assigning the job of health care workers to the police. There is growing concern about non-COVID care in government tertiary care hospitals getting affected, with more health care workers contracting the infection. It said that of the 62 deaths in July, for which audit had been completed, seven were classified as “death not due to COVID infection” because the underlying cause was not COVID infection.

Source: The Hindu August 20, 2020 13:18 UTC