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● Objective of the COVID-19’s Autopsy Under

Section 16 Act 342

The objectives of COVID-19 autopsy under section 16 Act 342 are:

1) to address public health issues (prevention and control)

2) to better understand the pathology of COVID-19 and

3) to guide clinicians in terms of treatment.

With this particular legal authorization, there is no requirement of consent from the
family member to conduct this particular post-mortem. This particular post-mortem

fall under legal post-mortem

In HKL, there are 16 positive COVID-19 cases who died in the hospital. And from these

particular 16 cases, we performed 4 cases under Prevention and Control of Infectious
Disease Act.