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In 2021, COVID Deaths Surged in Stunning Fashion in Eastern UP, Investigation Finds -CJP and TheWire.in

-Citizens for Justice and Peace and The Wire Data suggests that areas in eastern Uttar Pradesh, especially PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, had 60% excess deaths during the pandemic relative to 2019. The Wire is grateful to Murad Banaji for his help with preparing this report. Data collected and analysed by Citizens for Justice and Peace, a human rights organisation, and independent experts shows deaths in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, home to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency of Varanasi, surged in shocking fashion as the COVID-19 epidemic raged in the state. From January 2020 to August 2021, the areas surveyed saw around 60% more recorded deaths than expected from 2019 records as well as from government data on the death rate in the state before the pandemic. If the rise in mortality in these areas was repeated across all of Uttar Pradesh, the state as a whole could have had around 14 lakh (1.4 million) excess deaths during the pandemic – roughly 60-times Uttar Pradesh’s official COVID-19 death toll of 23,000. This would make Uttar Pradesh one of the hardest-hit states in the country during the pandemic – and also one where death recording has been the weakest. Please click here to read more.