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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Death Count In 24 UP Districts 43 Times More Than Official Covid-19 Toll -Saurav Das

Death Count In 24 UP Districts 43 Times More Than Official Covid-19 Toll -Saurav Das

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published Published on Jun 21, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 22, 2021

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Excess deaths in UP districts with highest official caseload were between 10 to 335 times higher than the government’s Covid-19 death toll over nine months to 31 March 2021, we found after analysing mortality data, obtained under the right-to-information law.

New Delhi: The number of people who died in 24 Uttar Pradesh (UP) districts over nine months to 31 March 2021 was, cumulatively, 43 times higher than the total official Covid-19 death toll reported from these districts over this period, according to mortality data for India’s most-populous state.

The 24 districts—of 75 in UP—we chose reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases over the months of June, July, August, and October 2020 when the first wave struck, as per various media reports (here, here, & here) and government data tracked by Covid19india.org. 

The excess deaths in these districts were between 10 to 335 times higher than the reported Covid-19 death toll between 1 July 2020 and 31 March 2021. The Bharatiya Janata Party has said UP’s chief minister Ajay Singh Bisht, popularly known as Yogi Adityanath “effectively managed” his state’s Covid-19 situation.

All the excess deaths cannot be attributed to Covid-19, and a diversion of health resources could cause other deaths to rise. But the vast divergence in average general deaths and excess deaths over a part of the pandemic calls into question UP’s official Covid-19 death toll of 4,537 by the end of March 2021.

Documents this reporter obtained for Article 14 under the Right to Information Act, 2005, revealed that during the no-pandemic period between 1 July 2019 and 31 March 2020 these 24 districts registered around 178,000 deaths. Over the same period in 2020-2021, deaths increased by 110% to 375,000, an excess of 197,000. 

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