excess mortality

covid death

India Had the Highest Mortality of Any Country During Pandemic: Study in Lancet

Banjot Kaur 11/03/2022

According to the analysis, the mortality in eight states...

Men take photographs of the body of their relative after he died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a hospital in Ahmedabad

India Had Most ‘Excess’ Deaths During the Pandemic, Analysis Says

The Wire Staff 21/02/2022

An analysis by Philip Schellekens suggests that India had...

kerala

Why Is Kerala Reporting So Many More COVID-19 Cases Than Other Indian States?

Rijo M. John 26/07/2021

India has a system that rewards success based on...

People wait to cremate COVID-19 victims at a crematorium ground in New Delhi

Madhya Pradesh Excess Deaths in April: An Alternative Count Using Funeral Data

Saugato Datta 22/06/2021

Calculations based on data of funerals and from the...

FILE PHOTO: The Wider Image: Death in the Himalayas: Poverty, fear, stretched resources propel India's COVID crisis

In Rural India, COVID-19 Outbreaks Have One Standout Feature: Speed

Murad Banaji, Aashish Gupta and Leena Kumarappan 17/06/2021

If the current data is anything to go by,...

Health workers carry the body of a person, who died from complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), for cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi

Making Sense of Madhya Pradesh’s Shocking Deaths Increase in April and May

Murad Banaji 14/06/2021

If we assume that a large part of the...

A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on the bodies of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi

India’s COVID-19 Death Reporting is Broken But Here’s How to Fix It

Aashish Gupta, Dhanya Rajendran and Rukmini S. 11/05/2021

Journalists are turning to novel sources, but they need...