The figures were arrived at from the data on deaths registered month-wise in the CRS from January 2015 to June 2021 in Punjab and accessed by The Hindu. If data for June 2021 were added to the analysis, the excess deaths multiple increased to 3.6. The excess deaths were calculated as the difference between the month-wise total number of registered deaths during the pandemic period and average of deaths registered for the same months during the pre-pandemic period (2018 and 2019). There were 9,184 recorded COVID-19 deaths in this three-month period, which also registered an estimate of 40,910 excess deaths compared with the corresponding months in 2018 and 2019. Coronavirus | Spike in excess deaths during pandemicAs with the other States, not all excess deaths could be related to COVID-19, but a bulk of them could be during the pandemic.

Source: The Hindu July 30, 2021 18:09 UTC