India, Jan. 14 -- The Bombay High Court has directed the central authorities to consider the compensation claim of a staff nurse's family for Rs.50 lakh under the Covid warriors' scheme, after noting that the district collector had rejected the claim solely because an RT-PCR report confirming the deceased had Covid-19 was not produced.

A division bench of justice Arun Pednekar and justice Vaishali Patil-Jadhav observed that there was overwhelming evidence to show that the nurse, Manda Gaikwad, was Covid-positive at the time of her death. The court held that the Ahilyanagar district collector could not have rejected her husband's claim merely on the ground that an RT-PCR test report was not submitted.

According to the petition filed by t...