PCR report now mandatory for COVID-19 insurance
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KATHMANDU, JUNE 2
Insurance Board (IB) — the regulatory physique — issued a round to insurance coverage corporations on Monday directing them to mandatorily receive PCR stories from any one who desires to purchase the coronavirus insurance coverage scheme.
Raju Raman Poudel, govt director of IB, talked about that PCR report has now been made obligatory to purchase the coronavirus insurance coverage plan as a precautionary measure.
“Previously, it was not required however because the variety of optimistic circumstances is rising each day in Nepal the PCR report is important, in any other case insurance coverage corporations might collapse underneath the burden of future claims,” he added.
As the variety of folks being contaminated by the coronavirus in Nepal has been rising by the day, insurance coverage corporations are frightened that they might not be capable of bear the burden of claims sooner or later.
“The premiums being collected for coronavirus insurance coverage are very low and the quantity of people that need to purchase this scheme is surging,” stated Chunky Chhetri, basic secretary at Nepal Insurance Association.
“The main downside is that worldwide reinsurance corporations haven’t agreed to reinsure the coronavirus insurance coverage schemes launched by corporations in Nepal,” knowledgeable Chhetri, including that home insurance coverage corporations thus will be unable to bear the burden of claims as the federal government has not been capable of successfully management the unfold of the virus.
Though the COVID-19 unfold throughout many nations at first of this yr, its impact was seen fairly late in Nepal and home insurance coverage corporations launched insurance coverage schemes in opposition to it solely final month and many individuals have been interested in the plan.
However, for the reason that current rise within the variety of contaminated folks, the businesses have began trying into methods on how the brand new product will be higher managed.
Meanwhile, Poudel stated that the response to this coverage has been extraordinarily optimistic and even in the course of the lockdown the insurance coverage corporations have been conducting consciousness programmes on the COVID-19 insurance coverage coverage. As per him, greater than 227,000 folks have taken out corona insurance coverage thus far. Since then, insurance coverage corporations have collected insurance coverage charges value Rs 130 million.
Moreover, an association has been made whereby insurance coverage corporations should present the insured quantity to the involved particular person as quickly because the PCR report is optimistic.
On April 21, the IB had directed insurance coverage corporations to supply insurance coverage protection for coronavirus by charging low cost premiums. It had additionally directed them to categorise one of these protection underneath the lethal illness class.
The board has fastened the premium for such insurance coverage protection at Rs 500 for every particular person and Rs 300 for an extra member of the family for individuals who take out insurance policies value Rs 50,000. The board has directed insurance coverage corporations to cost Rs 1,000 per particular person and Rs 600 for an extra member of the family if the coverage is value Rs 100,000.
As per Poudel, the COVID-19 policyholders are largely people.
A model of this text seems in e-paper on June 3, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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