New Delhi : Has the Covid pandemic made Indians older? A report has been published in the academic journal Science Advances which says so. After the release of this report, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has completely denied it. The report states that the age of people in India has declined significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The ministry has rejected the estimates of the study as “unsustainable and unacceptable”. The report states that India witnessed a reduction of 2.6 years in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020, with socially disadvantaged groups such as Muslims and Scheduled Tribes (ST) facing the most severe impact. The study claimed that women have seen a greater decline (3.1 years) than men (2.1 years). However, the Health Ministry has criticized it.

The central government rejected it outright, know what it said

The ministry has said how can this estimate be made by analysing only 23 percent of the families of 14 states. The ministry has said that this data was collected during the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic. The government said that death registrations increased by about 474,000 in 2020 compared to 2019, this trend is consistent with previous years and is not attributed only to the epidemic. The government also opposed the study's findings on the increase in age and sex-related mortality. Official data indicates that Covid-19 mortality was higher in men and older age groups, which contradicts the study's claim that mortality was higher among younger individuals and women. The ministry said, “These inconsistent and ambiguous results in the published paper further reduce confidence in its claims.”

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