Vaccine saved 42 lakh lives in India: Lancet’s big claim; WHO had said – 47 lakh deaths occurred in 2 years

The medical journal The Lancet has made a big claim about the deaths due to corona in India. According to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal, in the year 2021, the Kovid vaccine has been successful in preventing more than 42 lakh deaths in the country. The study is based on estimates of excess mortality in the country from December 8, 2020 to December 8, 2021. The WHO had estimated 47 lakh deaths in the country between January 2020 and December 2021.

The vaccine has saved the lives of more than 20 million people worldwide. Researchers found that in the first year of vaccination, 31.14 million possible deaths were prevented worldwide. These estimates have been released on the basis of additional deaths in 185 countries.

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Had WHO’s target been met, it would have saved 6 lakh lives

The World Health Organization (WHO) had set a target to vaccinate 40% of the population of each country by the end of 2021. According to the study, if this target had been met, then 5 lakh 99 thousand 300 lives could have been saved worldwide. The study estimates the number of preventable deaths between December 8, 2020 and December 8, 2021. This was the first year of vaccine distribution.India’s

Vaccination program praised
Oliver Watson, head of the Lancet study and Professor at Imperial College London, said 42.10 lakh deaths were prevented in India. Our estimate was between 36.65 lakhs to 43.70 lakhs. Watson emphasized that the vaccination campaign in India saved millions of lives. He said that earlier it was being estimated that there would have been 51.60 lakh (48.24 lakh to 56.29 lakh) deaths during the pandemic in India. This number is 10 times the official figure of 5 lakh 24 thousand 941 deaths recorded so far. He told that our study is based on estimates of high mortality rate in India during the pandemic, whose source is data from WHO and The Economist.

WHO had said – 47 lakh people died due to corona in India

Source- WHO, data from January 2020 to December 2021.

According to The Economist’s estimate, by the beginning of May 2021, 23 lakh people died of corona in India, while the official figures were around 2 lakh. At the same time, WHO released data from January 2020 to December 2021 last month and said that there were 47 lakh deaths due to corona in India. The WHO included both direct and indirect deaths in these deaths.

By that time these figures of WHO were a third of the world’s deaths and were 10 times higher than the official figures. These figures were denied by the central government.