India, Dec. 26 -- Granting relief to the husband of a contractual worker, who died of Covid in 2021, while on duty at a primary health centre in Kolhapur, the Bombay High Court said on Tuesday, "Agony and pains of family members of a Covid fighter are the same, irrespective of the nature of employment of such employee." The Kolhapur bench of the High Court directed the state government to extend the benefit of the Rs.50 lakh ex-gratia insurance scheme to the family of the deceased woman. The widower's claim had earlier been rejected by the public health department based on the fact that she had died four days after the scheme ended. The court held that not only had she had contracted the virus when the scheme was in effect but also that r...