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L ‘India have the mortality rate gives covid lowest in the world. A statistic that may come as a surprise considering that the country has been struggling for months to keep the pandemic under control with very little success.
The country, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants, has the second highest number of cases worldwide, more than 4.4 millionand the third for the number of deaths, more than 75,000.
A figure that, calculated on the basis of the number of deaths per 100 confirmed cases, is surprisingly low than most other countries.
The death rate from COVID-19 in India is in fact equal to the1.7%. For comparison, suffice it to say that in the US it is 3%, 11.7% in the UK and 12.6% in Italy.
But if the Indian government shows that this is a sign of its success in managing the health emergencyUsing the numbers to support the decision to lift some restrictions, many point out that there are significant inconsistencies in the base.
India: covid-related death rate is the lowest in the world
The first Minister, Narendra modi, in a press release published at the end of August, highlighted the fact that mortality from covid in the country is at continuous declineand that it could soon fall even below the 1% threshold.
But many scientists in India point out that I numbers They are incomplete and misleading, and how relying on them to relax restrictive measures could make matters worse.
India has indeed aweak public health infrastructure and insufficiently funded, to the point that for years it has failed to accurately record the deaths of its citizens.
Even when not facing a pandemic, only 86% of deaths nationwide are recorded in government systems.
Only 22% of all registered deaths have a official cause of death certified by a doctor.
There are a few reasons behind this: most people in India die at home or elsewhere, not in the hospital, so doctors generally have no way of assigning a cause of death.
Also, even if a patient dies in hospital, not everyone has access to the Ministry of Health web portal that is used to produce the medical certification cause of death.
Steadily increasing since March, the epidemic recorded its worst figures in India in June.
Out of 1 million cases reached on July 17, it only took three weeks to reach 2 million, and just a few days ago it surpassed the 4 million infections.
New Delhi and Mumbai, the two most populous cities in the country, are among the most affected. Here the health emergency is aggravated by the poverty scenario which sees millions of people living in very small spaces, with little running water and often no toilets.
The country was completely paralyzed in March, with million homebound people. The measure has had a major impact on the economic system, leaving millions of migrant workers without income and dramatically increasing the social class gap.
