1Civil Hospital, Jalandhar.
2Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Amritsar
3Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala
*Corresponding Author: Akash Deep Aggarwal, Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala Contact: +91 98156 52621 Email: toakashdeep@gmail.com
The present comparative study was conducted at Civil Hospital Jalandhar for all postmortem examination cases in a period from 23/3/2020 to 3/5/2020 in curfew/ lockdown due to COVID-19 with 23/3/2019 to 3/5/2019. A total of 59 and 96 postmortems was conducted in the respective period. The study shows the percentage change in the cause of death during the period of curfew/lockdown when people stayed at home. In this study, it has been found that there is a 38.54% decrease in death cases whose postmortem was conducted in the lockdown /curfew period. There was about a 4% increase in death cases in males. Death-cases decreased in all age groups except between 31 to 50 years. Accidental death cases, including road traffic and railway, fell by about 22%, and poisoning/drug overdoses death cases decreased by about 7%; however, hanging cases increased by about 11%.
COVID-19, Autopsy, Pandemics, Cause of death, Coronavirus
