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               190  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (31): 183-230, Summer 2022

               of  society  to  take  welfare,        own, nor to allow others to
               health  or  even  educational          commit such violations. On the
               support       measures        in       other hand, it is committed
               support  of  the  individual's         to take positive measures to

               life.  (Ref:  Paust,  2014;            preserve  and  ensure  the
               Ghari Syed Fatemi, 2016)               lives  of  its  citizens.  Based
                  One  of  the  considerable          on  such  analyses  and
               principles  in  justifying  the        theoretical foundations, the

               benefit  of individuals  from          Government's  liability  in
               the  minimum  health  is  the          the matter of Corona can be
               analysis of the right to life          proved.

               as  a  positive  right.  An               All in all, the right to life
               analysis according to which            is  the  most  fundamental
               the Government is committed            human right, and other rights

               to  protecting  the  lives  of         enshrined  in  international
               citizens  not  only  against           human  rights  instruments
               actions  that  violate  the            stand by it. This right is so

               principle of life but also in          important  that  it  cannot  be
               the  form  of  protective              ignored even in an emergency.
               measures  to  guarantee  life.         (ICCPR, 1966: Article 4)
               Therefore,  it  can  be  said             The  right  to  life  in

               that the Government, as the            disturbed situations may be
               main obligor in this human             endangered  or  violated.
               right,  is  obliged  not  to           Failure  to  provide  the

               violate  this  right  on  its          necessary provisions in dealing
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