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10 mn cases in 2020: More Indians got Covid-19 than any infectious disease By the end of 2020, India officially had just over 10 million laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, nearly twice as many as cases of typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia in 2018
With the COVID-19 pandemic currently in decline in India, and repeated messaging from the government that the country seems to have seen lower mortality from COVID-19 compared to other countries, it might be time to examine how COVID-19 stacked up against other deadly infectious diseases in India. By the end of 2020, India officially had just over 10 million laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, nearly twice as many as cases of typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia in 2018 put together, according to government data. Further, there were more
COVID-19 infections in India in 2020 than from most other communicable diseases in a normal year, our analysis of Global Burden of Disease estimates showed. While India seems to have seen lower COVID-19 mortality, COVID-19 deaths in India dwarfed those from other infectious diseases. However, the true number of infections–including asymptomatic cases–was likely much higher, according to two government national sero-surveys. The results of a third national sero-survey (December-January) currently under way are not yet out, but a smaller increase in sero-prevalence can be expected, which would put the number of estimated COVID-19 infections by the end of 2020 in the range of over 75 million at the lowest estimate, experts told us.