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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | COVID-19: Three States Had 3.5L Excess Deaths, and the Ex Gratia May Elude Many -Tapasya, Harshitha Manwani and Mayank Aggarwal

COVID-19: Three States Had 3.5L Excess Deaths, and the Ex Gratia May Elude Many -Tapasya, Harshitha Manwani and Mayank Aggarwal

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published Published on Jan 28, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 29, 2022

-TheWire.in/ The Reporters' Collective

* Excess deaths in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh were over 12-times the corresponding official COVID-19 death toll until early January 2022.

* Data from across the country suggests governments are undercounting COVID-19 deaths by the lakhs, possibly to avoid the charge of epidemic mismanagement.

* As a result, facilitated by disparate protocols, poor record-keeping and red-tape, thousands of families haven’t received the compensation they are due.

Last year, just as the novel coronavirus shifted shape into a more virulent variant and helped set off India’s ferocious second COVID-19 wave, Sharvan Singh rushed to the safety of home. Singh believed he had better chances of survival in his village in Rajasthan’s Sikar than Tamil Nadu, where he worked.

On May 14, a month and half after he arrived in his village in Dhod, he developed symptoms of COVID-19. His family admitted him to a government hospital in Sikar as he struggled to breathe. He tested positive for the infection on May 16 and died the next day. “It was all very sudden,” his brother Jeetu Singh told The Reporters’ Collective.

But Sharvan Singh isn’t counted among the official COVID deaths even though he died of the infection in the hospital. “The death certificate of my brother does not mention the cause of death. We were not provided any document by the hospital suggesting my brother died of COVID,” said Jeetu.

Because his death was not attributed to COVID-19 despite a positive test report, his wife Reena Rathod didn’t qualify for the state government’s one-time assistance of Rs 1 lakh for widows of COVID-19 victims, launched in June 2021. The village panchayat, which processes the application for chief minister’s ‘Corona Sahayata Yojana’ scheme, told the family that the primary health centre didn’t have a record of Sharvan being a COVID-19 case.

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TheWire.in/ The Reporters' Collective, 28 January, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/health/covid-rajasthan-jharkhand-andhra-pradesh-excess-deaths-undercounting-compensation-elude-families/?fbclid=IwAR0rjkJytyWJtB9uX-GeD5w8wpvWEHCSUs_7N_unl0-sRKQv19lfuf4z5


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