-IndiaSpend.com Health data relating to 2020-21 and April-May 2021 in the National Health Mission's Health Management Information System showed a spike in unexplained mortality in rural areas, and disruptions in India's routine immunisations during the Covid-19 pandemic Chennai: Key official health data that pointed to excess mortality and disrupted health services during the Covid-19 pandemic have suddenly gone offline, an IndiaSpend investigation shows. While government officials say that the reason for the...
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Several Studies Using Diverse Methods Point to Undercounting of COVID-19 Deaths, Govt in Denial -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in/ Leaflet.in According to the recent estimates, the actual number of deaths in India due to COVID-19 could be in the range of 2.2 million to 4.9 million. Going by this, the actual number of deaths could be more than the officially reported deaths by a factor ranging from five to 11 times! CORPES floating in the Ganges, long queues outside crematoriums, the crematoriums working overtime with several pyres burning simultaneously within...
More »Gauging pandemic mortality with civil registration data -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Underestimation is likely as the CRS is still an imperfect system, with potential sources of error Over the last month, Indian journalists from across the country have accessed and reported on State-level all-cause mortality from the Civil Registration System (CRS), currently confidential and closed to the public. While India’s official death toll from COVID-19 has been suspect from the very beginning — for reasons that are partly institutional and partly...
More »Excess deaths in Hyderabad are 10 times the official COVID-19 toll for Telangana -Srinivasan Ramani and Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu Figures corroborate Telangana High Court’s concerns with drastic Undercounting of COVID deaths. Hyderabad: The number of “excess deaths” registered in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) ever since COVID-19 hit (from April 2020 to May 2021), is over 10 times the officially recorded figure of 3,275 deaths for the corresponding period in the entire State of Telangana. There were an estimated 32,752 “excess deaths” — 18,420 between April and December...
More »Andhra Pradesh saw 400% increase in deaths in May, Tamil Nadu saw more modest excess mortality -Rukmini S
-Scroll.in Death registration data shows the second wave of Covid-19 hit Andhra Pradesh much harder than what has been captured in official data. Andhra Pradesh reported over 130,000 deaths in May 2021, or nearly five times the usual number of deaths reported in the month, official data shows. In all, the excess mortality reported by the state from January to May 2021 was 34 times the official Covid-19 toll for the same...
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