{"id":1521,"date":"2026-07-19T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.fpdtimeandattendance.co.za\/?page_id=1521"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:05:03","slug":"module-5-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/?page_id=1521","title":{"rendered":"Module 5.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In 2020, the World Health Organisation published international guidelines for the certification and coding of COVID-19 as a cause of death.<\/p>

The definition of a death due to COVID-19, based on these guidelines, is as follows:<\/p>

\u201ca death resulting from an illness compatible with COVID-19, (based on laboratory confirmation OR on clinical features only)\u201d<\/p>

\u2022 The underlying cause of death of a person who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 (either on the basis of laboratory confirmation OR on clinical grounds alone) should be written as COVID-19, in Part 1 of the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 medical certificate of cause of death, unless there is a clear alternative or unrelated supervening medical cause of death (such as trauma or pre-existing severe co-morbidity).
\u2022 If there is laboratory confirmation of the disease, then the certifier should record the cause of death as \u201cConfirmed COVID-19″.\u00a0
\u2022 But if the diagnosis was made on clinical grounds alone, the certifier should record the cause of death as \u201cSuspected COVID-19″.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Slide-4-Mod-5.mp4 < Back Restart Forward > Definition of death due to Covid-19 3\/12 Home In 2020, the World Health Organisation published international guidelines for the certification and coding of COVID-19 as a cause of death. The definition of a death due to COVID-19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcertificate.fpdsiu.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}