Next in the series on #excessdeaths that we are tracking State and city-wise across the country: Himachal Pradesh. "Excess deaths" here were just about twice the official COVID19 tally between April 2020 and May 2021: thehindu.com/news/national/… (1/n)
#Himachal had an interesting pattern. While deaths peaked in May 2021, the excess deaths multiple over the actual COVID19 death count was higher in 2020 (in the 1st wave: 2.8) than in 2021 (1.6). (2/n) 
All said, #Himachal seems to be tracking #COVID19 deaths better than other North Indian States for whom full data on death registrations has been available so far. (3/n)
When asked about the discrepancy between CRS data & official COVID-19 death toll, Janak Raj, senior medical superintendent at Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla, told us that this could be because of the ‘non-hospital’ deaths (deaths at home). (4/n)
HT @PratapVardhan (for compiling & aggregating data for us), @vasudevavikas for inputs from Chandigarh and @i_sumantsen for graphics support (6/n)
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