Currently, the world is going through one of them: a massive COVID-19 pandemic. race, ethnicity or caste) overlap, this suggests that socially marginalised groups would be at higher risk of mortality due to COVID-19. India’s lockdown, imposed in the last week of March 2020, was among the most stringent. It is a longitudinal data set covering 174,405 households (roughly 10,900 households per week, and 43,600 per month). These proportions are in stark contrast to Upper Caste (UC) households, where the corresponding proportions are 11% and 24%, respectively.

Source: The Hindu August 21, 2020 18:22 UTC