June 2020 saw significantly higher burials in Karachi govt graveyards than any other month in the past two years
The rise is likely due to some undetected Covid deaths & people not getting treated for other diseases
Data ⬇️
@uszahid
June '18: 1,767
June '19: 2,375
June '20: 3,594
One imp caveat - there were only a small number of officially recorded Covid burials (118) in these Karachi graveyards in June, far fewer than the total number of official Covid deaths (around 800)
We were told that does happen at times
Without understanding mortality figures - we cannot really know what the impact of the pandemic is
For Lahore, we only have new data from Miani Sahib graveyard - which suggests after a huge spike in June, a more "normal" level of burials are now taking place
Though Eid could see a new spike