The conclusion to a two-piece article.

About 10.1mn people are estimated to have died from all causes in India in 2020, and about 16mn in the pandemic period 1 March 2020 to 26 July 2021. The estimate of Covid deaths is 150,000 for 2020 and for the pandemic period it’s 421,000. On 20 July, the Washington-based Center for Global Development published a report which estimated India’s excess mortality to be 4.9mn over the 15 months of the pandemic.