India has registered over 520,000 Covid-19 deaths in all: CRS report

Covid-19 deaths grew in 2021 compared to 2020

India’s Covid-19 deaths rose faster in 2021 compared to 2020, and so far this year the country has already registered 42,207 deaths.

India reported 332,492 deaths due to Covid-19 in 2021, up from 148,994 during 2020, according to the Civil Registration System (CRS) report 2020 released by the Centre on Tuesday. At a time when reports claim that India has raised concerns around methodology used by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on reporting Covid-19 deaths by various countries, the publication of the CRS report is significant.

So far the country has reported 523,693 deaths in all due to Covid-19. Speaking