Study Says India's COVID-19 Deaths Are 10 Times Higher Than Reported

India's official Covid-19 death toll of just over 414,000 is the world's third-highest after the US' 609,000 fatalities and Brazil's 542,000. During India's most deadly phase of the pandemic in May, over 4,000 deaths were being reported each day - more than any other country. However a new report suggests the true death toll could be as high as 4.7 million

India's second wave saw a devastating surge partly fuelled by the Delta variant in April and May, resulting in more 300,000 new cases reported each day (pictured)

Daily Mail: India’s Covid-19 death toll could be TEN TIMES higher than official figure, a new study suggests, predicting as many as 4.7 million fatalities

* Nearly 415,000 coronavirus fatalities have been reported by authorities in India

* But the study suggests that the true figure is between 3.4 and 4.7 million deaths

* If correct, it would be India's worst humanitarian crisis since the 1947 partition

* India has previously called higher excess-death predictions 'speculative'

* Country of 1.3 billion has only vaccinated just over 8 percent of eligible adults India's coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country's worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday.

The Center for Global Development study's estimate is the highest yet for the carnage in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people, which is emerging from a devastating surge partly fuelled by the Delta variant in April and May.

The study - which analysed data from the start of the pandemic to June this year - suggested that between 3.4 million and 4.7 million people had died from the virus.

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