A health worker administers a dose of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination center set up at Navyug School in New Delhi. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
5 years ago
Jul 26, 2021
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India reported more than 400 deaths in a day with the overall confirmed toll at more than 4.2 lakh. But the nation's actual death toll from Covid-19 could range between 1.3 million (13 lakh) to a staggering 5 million (50 lakh), if you go by numbers derived from research models and local authority data.
Even by the most conservative estimate, the real toll of the pandemic has been vastly underestimated because of a combination of under-counting, a backlog in the civil registration system and a lack of testing leading to Covid deaths being classified under other conditions like heart disease.
