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Poor faced more covid deaths in India, study shows -Rukmini S

-Livemint.com

A new paper suggests the second covid-19 wave had a more fatal impact on Chennai’s poorer neighbourhoods than richer ones

Poorer communities saw far more excess deaths during the pandemic than richer neighbourhoods, evidence from a new Chennai-based study shows. Taken with data from other parts of the country, the findings suggest that India’s poor, particularly the elderly, may have disproportionately borne the burden of the pandemic’s fatal impact.

In a study published in The Lancet’s Infectious Diseases Journal early Thursday, researchers led by Ramanan Laxminarayan of Princeton University looked at mortality data from the government’s Civil Registration System (CRS) alongside Census-based measures of affluence. Researchers from the Universities of Berkeley and Chicago and top bureaucrats in Tamil Nadu were part of the study.

Chennai recorded nearly 26,000 excess deaths between March 2020 and June 2021, or a 40% increase over deaths otherwise expected based on the pre-pandemic trend, the study said. This implies more than five excess deaths per 1,000 people, and this was particularly higher for older age groups.

“Excess deaths" refer to the surplus deaths registered during the pandemic as compared to the normal pre-pandemic number. All excess deaths need not be covid-19 deaths, but possibility of undercount in official data makes this the best measure to assess the pandemic’s impact.

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