‘Excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 not equal to deaths by COVID-19, increase attributable to several reasons’

India’s cumulative excess mortality for 2020 and 2021 was 9.3% higher than the expected deaths, lower than that of the U.S., Italy, and Russia, a senior Union Health Ministry official said, referring to new data from the official record of births and deaths

​India’s cumulative excess mortality for 2020 and 2021 was 9.3% higher than the expected deaths, lower than that of the U.S., Italy, and Russia, a senior Union Health Ministry official said, referring to new data from the official record of births and deaths