Thread by @SauravDassss

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24 districts in Uttar Pradesh, registered 1,97,000 excess deaths than normal bw July 2020-March 2021. UP Govt’s official COVID death toll though, was 43 times less than excess deaths- only 4537 by 31 March.

My piece for @Article14live

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For instance-

In Amethi, 13,000 more people had died than normal- a 1700% increase, official death toll was a mere 39, or 335 times less.

Lucknow- over 30,200 excess deaths, 524% more than 2019-20 and 25 times more than the official death toll of 1,211.

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Remember Ghazipur? Where during second wave, numerous dead bodies were found floating in its Ganga river?

This district near PM Modi's Varanasi saw 18,000 excess deaths after 1st wave, but official death toll reported by Yogi Adityanath's govt was a mere 92- 197 times less

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I spoke to Dr. @MenonBioPhysics who told me that if such unusually low death rates r reported by state governments as their official figures, we run the risk that d public will not take messaging regarding the disease seriously enough.

Negatively impacts our public policy.

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Releasing the RTI response of the UP Government based on which I wrote this story.

First 4 pages.

Last 3 pages.

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