2023
COVID-19: Three States Had 3.5L Excess Deaths, and the Ex Gratia May Elude Many
Entry type: Single project
Country/area: India
Publishing organisation: The Wire is the publishing partner for this story. The story was first published on The Wire’s English platform and then translated and published on its Hindi and Urdu website.
Organisation size: Small
Publication date: 2022-01-28
Language: English, Hindi, Urdu
Authors: Tapasya, Harshitha Manwani, Mayank Aggarwal
Biography:
Tapasya is an investigative journalist writing about policy and governance. They are an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Harshitha Manwani is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. She has previously worked in public policy.
Mayank is a journalist based in Delhi. He has written extensively on the intersection of environment, energy, natural resources, forests and social issues.
Project description:
Through death register data obtained from across India, The Reporters’ Collective estimated that in the pandemic months between March 2020 and June 2021, 359,496 more people died than in the corresponding months of 2019 in just 3 states. In these states, officially only 28,609 people died of Covid-19. Experts feared relatives of thousands of Covid-19 victims will be excluded from compensation due to lack of medical records, poor testing and red-tape despite the Indian government initiating compensation procedure on the instructions of the country’s Supreme Court.
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Project links:
https://www.reporters-collective.in/projects/pandemic-found-them-compensation-may-not
