Of denial and data: Deaths due to India’s COVID-19 national lockdown

Q3 Social Sciences

Economic and Political Weekly Pub Date : 2021-06-10 DOI:10.31235/osf.io/h9knu

Åman, Thejesh G N, Krushna Ranaware, Kanika Sharma

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Abstract

On March 23, 2020, the Indian government announced a national lockdown, barely giving a four-notice to a country of 1.3 billion people. What unfolded next was a humanitarian crisis, including deaths caused by the lockdown. The Indian government has been in denial about these deaths and the data on them. In this article, we describe the motivation, process, and details of our attempt to gather data on the human costs of the lockdown. Using media reports, we recorded a total of 989 deaths under 11 categories from March-July 2020. These deaths highlight the devastating consequences of a harsh and sudden lockdown on the vulnerable sections. They also underscore the need for strong social security efforts to reduce the aftereffects of the lockdown and the pandemic.

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否认和数据:印度因COVID-19国家封锁造成的死亡

2020年3月23日，印度政府宣布全国封锁，对一个拥有13亿人口的国家几乎没有发出四级通知。接下来发生的是一场人道主义危机，包括封锁造成的死亡。印度政府一直否认这些死亡和相关数据。在本文中，我们描述了收集封锁人力成本数据的动机、过程和细节。根据媒体报道，我们从2020年3月至7月共记录了11类989例死亡病例。这些死亡凸显了对脆弱地区突然实施严厉封锁的破坏性后果。它们还强调需要强有力的社会保障努力，以减少封锁和大流行的后果。

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