Four million excess deaths in India, study suggests
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Four million excess deaths in India, study suggests
Sirop14 Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:05 am
Four million excess deaths in India, study suggests
A study by the US-based Center for Global Development has found that there were 4 million excess deaths in India from the start of the pandemic to 21 June, AP reports.
Although not all of the deaths can be directly attributed to Covid, the toll is nearly 10 times the official coronavirus death toll in the country, which stands at 414,108, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths – the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected – to be between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021. It said an accurate figure may “prove elusive” but the true death toll “is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count”.
It is difficult to determine the actual Covid death toll said Arvind Subramanian, India’s former chief economic adviser and one of the authors of the study, but, he added:
The true deaths are likely to be in several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy since the partition and independence.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jul/20/coronavirus-live-news-4-million-excess-deaths-in-india-study-suggests-as-official-covid-toll-passes-414000
A study by the US-based Center for Global Development has found that there were 4 million excess deaths in India from the start of the pandemic to 21 June, AP reports.
Although not all of the deaths can be directly attributed to Covid, the toll is nearly 10 times the official coronavirus death toll in the country, which stands at 414,108, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths – the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected – to be between 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021. It said an accurate figure may “prove elusive” but the true death toll “is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count”.
It is difficult to determine the actual Covid death toll said Arvind Subramanian, India’s former chief economic adviser and one of the authors of the study, but, he added:
The true deaths are likely to be in several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy since the partition and independence.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jul/20/coronavirus-live-news-4-million-excess-deaths-in-india-study-suggests-as-official-covid-toll-passes-414000
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