Coronavirus: four cities account for 60% of COVID-19 deaths in India

Coronavirus: a doctor helps a patient in Mumbai. (Express photo: Prashant Nadkar)

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Given that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 has crossed 380, the figures show that more than 60 percent of deaths have been reported in just four cities, while Maharashtra accounts for almost half of all deaths.

On the night of April 14, a total of 382 deaths were reported across the country, of which 175, or 45 percent, had occurred in Maharashtra. The Mumbai metropolitan area, including Thane, Vasai, Panvel, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar, together recorded 127 of these deaths, while Pune reported 38.

Mumbai, Pune, Indore and Delhi together accounted for more than 60 percent of all deaths, a total of 232 of the 382 deaths. Ahmedabad, with 13 deaths, and Hyderabad, with 12, together accounted for another 25.

These six cities together have seen two thirds of all deaths. Delhi had 30 deaths as of Tuesday night, while Indore had seen 37 of the 53 deaths in Madhya Pradesh.

Indore and Pune also had a very high death rate compared to the number of people who tested positive. As of Tuesday, 374 people had tested positive in Pune, and 38 of them had died, meaning one death for every 10 positive cases. In Indore, 411 people have tested positive so far, and 37 have died, meaning that one in 11 positive cases has succumbed to the disease. Most of the positive cases and deaths in Indore were from people related to last month’s Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi.

This proportion is considerably lower in Mumbai and Delhi. The 127 deaths recorded in the Greater Mumbai region stem from a total of 2,075 positive cases. That gives you a rate of one death in almost 16 positive cases. In Delhi, there has been one death for every 52 positive cases.

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