{"id":1238459,"date":"2022-01-25T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1238459"},"modified":"2022-01-25T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:52:09","slug":"report-coronavirus-deaths-up-to-nine-times-higher-in-some-indian-states-than-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-coronavirus-deaths-up-to-nine-times-higher-in-some-indian-states-than-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Coronavirus Deaths Up to Nine Times Higher in Some Indian States than Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-coronavirus-deaths-up-to-nine-times-higher-in-some-indian-states-than-reported%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1238459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">New statistics released by India\u2019s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine&nbsp;times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to January 19, 2022, the <em>Hindu<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/more-evidence-of-excess-deaths-in-india-during-pandemic\/article38310271.ece\">reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper\u2019s January 23 report, \u201c6,14,211 claims of compensation for deaths due to COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] were filed in 20 [Indian] States against the reported death toll of 4,29,872 in those States.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Southern India\u2019s Telangana state \u201creported only 3,993 deaths but received 28,969 compensation claims,\u201d according to the <em>Hindu<\/em>, meaning its coronavirus death toll may have been over seven times greater than officially reported.<\/p>\n<p>Western India\u2019s Gujarat state \u201creported only 10,094 deaths but \u2026 [received] 89,633 compensation claims,\u201d the newspaper added, suggesting Gujurat\u2019s coronavirus death toll was nearly nine times greater than previously stated.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Hindu<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/scto-states-ensure-covid-ex-gratia-claims-resolved-101642617263212.html\">cited<\/a> data published by the <em>Hindustan Times<\/em> on January 20 based on federal health records released by India\u2019s Supreme Court on January 19.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIndia\u2019s cumulative COVID&nbsp;[Chinese coronavirus] deaths by September 2021 were 6-7 times higher than reported officially,\u201d according to the findings of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abm5154\">study<\/a> published by the online academic journal Science on January 6.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19408722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/india-is-bracing-deluge-of-covid-19-authorities-of-megacities-bringing-restrictions-afp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19408722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/india-is-bracing-deluge-of-covid-19-authorities-of-megacities-bringing-restrictions-afp.png\" alt=\"India is bracing for a deluge of Covid-19 cases, with authorities of various megacities bringing in restrictions Arun SANKAR AFP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>India is bracing for a deluge of Covid-19 cases, with authorities of various megacities bringing in restrictions. (Arun SANKAR\/AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, based its analysis on two Indian government data sources and one independent source. The non-state source used \u201cmortality reported in a nationally representative telephone survey conducted by CVoter, an established, independent, private polling agency, which launched the survey on a non-profit basis to help track the pandemic,\u201d according to the report\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that \u201cestimates of 3.1 to 3.4 million deaths from the independent COVID Tracker survey represent a national COVID death rate per million population ranging from about 2300 to 2500, or approximately 6- to 7-fold the officially reported rate on Sept 1, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s researchers documented the largest gaps between officially reported coronavirus death tolls and those suggested by independent sources such as the CVoter telephone poll \u201cin the poorest states in central India and larger gaps among women than among men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s authors suggested Indian state health officials had failed to sufficiently register coronavirus-caused deaths since the pandemic\u2019s outbreak in March 2020, greatly affecting the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/04\/29\/coronavirus-forces-crematoriums-india-stage-mass-funeral-pyres-parking-lots\/\">death toll<\/a> from the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia\u2019s significantly higher COVID death rate in 2021 compared to the lower than expected death rate in 2020 requires further research,\u201d the report acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spread of infection to rural areas in 2021 is one factor, but there might also be differences in the pathogenicity between the original virus (Wuhan) in 2020 and the mix of alpha and delta variants accounting for most of the 2021 viral wave, or other biological predictors of severe infection which changed between these two waves,\u201d the researchers speculated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New statistics released by India\u2019s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine\u00a0times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}