-The Hindu Study finds nearly 5.18 excess deaths for every 1,000 people. Chennai: A study analysing the registered COVID-19 deaths in Chennai district found a high degree of excess deaths. A figure of nearly 5.18 excess deaths for every 1,000 people has been reported in the study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases. The study also found that during the second wave of COVID-19 in Chennai, there was an increase in the percentage...

-The Telegraph Given hospitalisation trends in the West, we may not see extreme pressures on hospitals as during second wave, say experts Indian health officials are monitoring Covid-19 hospitalisation rates in South Africa and Europe to try and predict how omicron-fuelled surges might impact the demand for critical care beds in India. The early signals appear to uncouple deaths from infection spikes. The daily new cases in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the...

-TheWire.in The apex court had insisted that an RT-PCR test report and death certificate showing that the death has occurred within 30 days are the only requirements to receive compensation. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has lashed out at the Gujarat government for constituting a “scrutiny” committee for the disbursal of ex-gratia compensation for COVID-19 deaths, overreaching the court’s direction, therefore making the process “cumbersome”. According to LiveLaw, the state government had issued...

The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...

-Hindustan Times Among those who died by suicide, students and small entrepreneurs saw the biggest jump, supporting anecdotal accounts of stress How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October 28 confirms intuitive wisdom on this question. While the number of road accidents and associated deaths fell sharply, suicides saw a large increase. Among those who died by...