What is Death Certificate?Death certificate refers to a document issued by a medical practitioner certifying the deceased state of a person. It can also refer to a document issued by a person such as a registrar of vital statistics that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.
What is Coronavirus?Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as the common cold, though rarer forms such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 can be lethal. Symptoms vary in other species: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.
Who are GOV.UK?GOV.UK is the official, centralised digital platform for the Government of the United Kingdom. Launched in 2012 by the Government Digital Service (GDS), it replaced hundreds of individual department websites to create a single, unified point of access for all public services, official publications, and government policy.