Ahmedabad: A paper by researchers from India, Canada and the US shows that the overall death of all causes during April-May 2021 The second wave of Covid is 230% higher in Gujarat compared to the average monthly mortality recorded in 2018-19.
According to estimates, the victims of Gujarat rose from an average of 17,000 per month to 39,000 per month during April-May 2021.
This is the highest among the 16 Indian states in the survey.
This paper, published in international journal science, claimed that the excess of all-India was 120% because death rose from an average of 3.75 lakh to 4.5 lakh for two months.
Science paper – Available as Prefrint on its website – claiming that the official figure of around 4.8 lakh deaths stated by the government, the actual number can be around 30 lakh which is almost 6-7 times higher.
Paper ‘Covid mortality in India: National survey data and health mortality’ was published in the latest edition of Science journal and written by 11 researchers from Canada, India and the US.