What does the WHO say on Covid linked deaths in India?<\/b><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6274c049a1385730efa59903_OI.png?resize=439%2C476&ssl=1\")
Source: The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCovid-19 could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021 either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact.<\/span><\/p>\nNote<\/b>: Deaths indirectly linked to COVID-19 are attributable to other health conditions for which people were unable to access prevention and treatment because health systems were overburdened by the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSignificance of this data<\/b>: These are the highest deaths for any country and comprise nearly a third of the 15 million such deaths globally.<\/span><\/p>\nMoreover, India officially estimated only 4.8 lakh cumulative deaths linked to COVID-19 as of\u00a0<\/span>December 2021 which implies that the WHO estimate is nearly 10 times the government\u00a0<\/span>count.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHow did India respond to this WHO report?<\/b><\/h5>\n
India has raised objections to WHO\u2019s findings. It has said that:<\/span><\/p>\n\u2013 WHO used its own \u2018Global Health Estimate 2019\u2019, which by name is an estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2013 India objected to WHO taking a \u201cone size fits all\u201d approach for a country like India as it did not capture variations in test positivity and severity.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat does India\u2019s Civil <\/b>Registration System(CRS) Report say on Covid deaths?<\/b><\/h5>\n
According to <\/span>Civil Registration System<\/span> (<\/span>CRS<\/span>) <\/span><\/a>data, the total number of deaths including Covid-19 fatalities registered during 2020 rose to 81.2 lakh, up 6% from 76.4 lakh in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis means that around 4.75 lakh additional \u201call-cause\u201d deaths were registered in India in 2020 as compared to 2019. On the other hand, WHO has estimated nearly 8.2 lakh excess deaths from all causes in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\nNote: <\/b>CRS only counts deaths registered and doesn\u2019t break down causes of death.<\/span><\/p>\nSource: <\/b>The post is based on the article \u201cWHO estimates 4.7 million COVID-19-linked deaths in India\u201d<\/b> published in The Hindu on 6th May 2022<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the News? The World Health Organization(WHO) has released a report on the Covid-19 related deaths. What does the WHO say on Covid linked deaths in India? Covid-19 could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021 either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact. Note:… Continue reading WHO estimates 4.7 million COVID-19-linked deaths in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-183224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704763751},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Covid-19 could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021 either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact.<\/span><\/p>\n Note<\/b>: Deaths indirectly linked to COVID-19 are attributable to other health conditions for which people were unable to access prevention and treatment because health systems were overburdened by the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of this data<\/b>: These are the highest deaths for any country and comprise nearly a third of the 15 million such deaths globally.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, India officially estimated only 4.8 lakh cumulative deaths linked to COVID-19 as of\u00a0<\/span>December 2021 which implies that the WHO estimate is nearly 10 times the government\u00a0<\/span>count.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India has raised objections to WHO\u2019s findings. It has said that:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 WHO used its own \u2018Global Health Estimate 2019\u2019, which by name is an estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 India objected to WHO taking a \u201cone size fits all\u201d approach for a country like India as it did not capture variations in test positivity and severity.<\/span><\/p>\n According to <\/span>Civil Registration System<\/span> (<\/span>CRS<\/span>) <\/span><\/a>data, the total number of deaths including Covid-19 fatalities registered during 2020 rose to 81.2 lakh, up 6% from 76.4 lakh in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This means that around 4.75 lakh additional \u201call-cause\u201d deaths were registered in India in 2020 as compared to 2019. On the other hand, WHO has estimated nearly 8.2 lakh excess deaths from all causes in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>CRS only counts deaths registered and doesn\u2019t break down causes of death.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article \u201cWHO estimates 4.7 million COVID-19-linked deaths in India\u201d<\/b> published in The Hindu on 6th May 2022<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The World Health Organization(WHO) has released a report on the Covid-19 related deaths. What does the WHO say on Covid linked deaths in India? Covid-19 could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021 either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact. Note:… Continue reading WHO estimates 4.7 million COVID-19-linked deaths in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-183224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704763751},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did India respond to this WHO report?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What does India\u2019s Civil <\/b>Registration System(CRS) Report say on Covid deaths?<\/b><\/h5>\n