NEW DELHI, Oct 3 (NNN-PTI) – India’s death toll from COVID-19 pandemic surpassed the 100,000-mark on Saturday, said the federal health ministry.
This has made India the biggest contributor to the global death tally — one in every five fatalities (19%) in the world in the past week has come from India. The first death due to Covid-19 was reported on Mar 12 in Karnataka, with the 100,000th fatality coming 204 days later. If India’s fatalities are divided into four phases of 25,000 deaths each, each has become shorter than the one preceding one. While the first 25,000 deaths took 127 days (on July 16), India crossed the 50,000 mark only 30 days later (on Aug 15). Deaths crossed the 75,000 mark another 25 days later on Sept 9, with the latest 25,000 fatalities coming in just 23 days.
India became the third country in the world to cross this landmark – only the United States (212,000 deaths) and Brazil (144,000 dead) have reported more fatalities – but does so with a significantly better mortality rate than nearly all other countries that have seen large outbreaks. India’s case fatality rate (CFR) – the proportion of death to the number of confirmed cases – stands at 1.56%, which is not only half of the global average (2.98%), but also better than the comparable rates in the US (2.84%) and Brazil (2.99%).
However, since the first week of Sept, daily deaths in India have been outstripping those in any country in the world. On average, 1,065 people have died every day over the past week in the country, against 755 average daily deaths in the US and 713 in Brazil in the same period.– NNN-PTI
