Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary — Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer health insurance plans to provide cover and give financial protection against COVID-19. Under the tie-up, they are offering two health insurance plans — Bharti AXA Group Health Assure which offers lump sum benefit of Rs 25,000 and Group Hospital Cash which provides daily benefit starting Rs 500 per day — to provide protection against COVID-19.
With no pre-medical check-up required, both the products are currently available for savings bank account customers of the company who are not suffering from COVID-19 or its symptoms. In case, the policy holder is diagnosed negative after being quarantined for at least 14 days in a government hospital or military facility/establishment, he or she will be entitled to 50 per cent of the sum insured. The policy offers protection for COVID-19 from day one of the purchase and can be purchased at a price of Rs 499 (including GST) for fixed sum insured of Rs 25,000.
Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations across Asia and Africa.