Claim: The Department of Health  needs the consent of families to release information of deceased relatives.
Fact-check: Do families have to give permission for COVID-19 death statistics? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: inaccurate. while there has been a change in the timing of reporting of official statistics regarding the impact of covid-19, there is no suggestion that family consent has any role in the registration of deaths or their statistical reporting. in northern ireland, the public health agency has stated that all deaths are a matter of public record.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-03-31T00:00:00