Covid, up to 10 times more deaths than official numbers in India

Coronavirus deaths in India could have been, from the beginning of the pandemic to last June, up to ten times more than officially recorded, in the millions, against the 414 thousand counted by the authorities. Researchers from the US-based Center for Global Development have established this by working on three different datasets that all point in the same direction. The data used were extracted from the civil registers in which the deaths in seven states are reported (in which half of the country’s population resides) and from the international estimates of the incidence of deaths by age groups crossed with the serological test results, as well as to surveys on the consumption of 800 thousand families across the country. Respectively, the deaths that emerge are 3.4 million, 4 million and 4.9. Official data speak of an incidence of 0.3 percent of deaths (on the number of infected inhabitants), less than in other countries. But the result of this research indicates a number of deaths between 3.4 million and 4.9 million between January 2020 and June 2021, a reality “catastrophically worse”.