Revista de Ciências Civis e Jurídicas

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Explanatory Regulations,Virus Inquests and COVID-19 disease

Paola Charalampous

With more than 4,375,000 cases and over 127,000 deaths [1] since coronavirus’ first appearance and following outbreak on November 2019, the UK comes first in death roll in Europe and fifth in the world, after US, Brazil, Mexico and India [2]. As a result, the question of whether the excessive death rates should fall under the coroners’ jurisdiction came on the frontline. At the very beginning of the pandemic, the cases and deaths due to COVID-19 were not that common and thus many of them were appointed to coroners, albeit a naturally occurring disease like the flu and pneumonia are not usually referred to an expert.