New Delhi: The corona vaccine worked to prevent more than 42 lakh possible deaths in India in 2021. This has been claimed in a research published in The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal. This is based on estimates of the rate of deaths in India during the pandemic. The study found that the corona virus vaccine has reduced potential deaths by 20 million worldwide during the pandemic.

The researchers said that of a possible 31.4 million deaths in the first year of the vaccination program, 19.8 million were prevented worldwide. It has been estimated on the basis of deaths in 185 countries. It is also estimated that if 40 percent of the population in every country had been vaccinated by the end of 2021, 5,99,300 lives could have been saved.

This research has estimated the number of preventable deaths between December 8, 2020 and December 8, 2021. Which covers the first year during which the vaccine was introduced. Study lead author Oliver Watson said, 'For India, we estimate that 42,10,000 deaths due to vaccination were prevented in this period. This is our central estimate, with the uncertainty in the range of 36,65,000-43,70,000.

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