Such discrepancies were being reported in several states. But just over a 10th of those deaths made it to the government's tally: The official death toll that day was 78. In the western state of Gujarat, local media tracked 689 bodies that were cremated or buried under COVID-19 protocols in one day in mid-April. Goats and Soda India Is Counting Thousands Of Daily COVID Deaths. "The second wave in particular led to heart-wrenching stories from friends and colleagues - and a sense that official numbers are not capturing the true scale of that toll." The researchers looked at India in particular because, says study co-author Justin Sandefur, the country has been hit so hard by COVID-19. That's up to 10 times higher than the Indian government's official death toll of 414,482.
The conclusion is that between 3.4 and 4.7 million more people died in that pandemic period than would have been predicted. The analysis, from the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C., looks at the number of "excess deaths" that occurred in India between January 2020 and June 2021 - in other words, how many more people died during that period than during a similar period of time in 2019 or other recent years.ĭrawing death data from civil registries and other sources, the report came up with three estimates for undercounts. A study released on Tuesday looks at how much of a disparity there may be in India, one of the epicenters of the pandemic. The official global total as of this week: 4.1 million.īut everyone agrees the true toll is far greater.
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Performing last rites before the cremation of a family member who died of COVID-19.
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