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Children in India are less likely to die young now than a few years ago, despite the health upheavals in the years before Covid-19 hit the country in January 2020.
Key indicators of child mortality improved at a faster rate than before despite the pandemic, though a fair distance is yet to be covered.
In the 10 years since 2012, the rate declined by 44.1 per cent in India, shows an analysis of new multi-nation data from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The improvement is actually marginally better than the pre-pandemic decade ending 2019. India did better than Brazil
