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30 May 2022 MCCD 2020 Report

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According to the Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD) 2020 report, the first year of the COVID-19 lockdown saw the highest incidence of people dying of respiratory diseases during the past decade.

The Medical Certification of Causes of Death (MCCD) scheme was launched in the country under the provisions of the Birth and Death Registration (RBD) Act, 1969.
Since then it has started with different levels of proficiency in the States/UTs in the country.
Under the scheme, the Office of the Registrar General of India receives data on medically proven causes of death in a form collected, compiled and tabulated by the Birth and Death Registration Offices of the respective Chief Registrars of States/UTs.

The total number of deaths due to all causes in the year 2020 was 81.2 lakh.
India’s additional death rate for 2020 and 2021 is estimated at 47.4 lakh in the report.
The Civil Registration System (CRS) data reported an additional 4.75 lakh deaths from all causes in 2020 compared to 2019.

In the case of medically proven deaths, it is 22.5% of the total registered deaths nationally, but the death toll at the time of terminal illness has increased to 54.6% but this increased to 54.6% at the time of terminal illness.
About 5.7% of total clinically certified deaths are reported as infant deaths.

Communicable diseases (32.1%)
Respiratory tract diseases (10%)
Special Purpose Code- COVID-19 (8.9%)
Some infectious and parasitic diseases – mainly involving septicemia and tuberculosis (7.1%)
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (5.8%)
Injury, poisoning and some other consequences of external causes (5.6%)
Neoplasm (4.7%)
Some conditions arising in the perinatal period (4.1%)
Symptoms and abnormal clinical results “not elsewhere classified” (10.6%)

The COVID-19 virus, also a cause of respiratory illness, is separately reported in the report as “Deaths reported under the Code for Special Purposes (COVID-19 Deaths)”.
COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death, accounting for 8.9% of total medical deaths nationally.
However, according to the Union Health Ministry, in the year 2020, 1.49 lakh people died due to Kovid-19.
As of May 2022, the death toll from Kovid-19 in India was 5.2 lakh.

In the year 2020, there were 1,81,160 deaths due to respiratory diseases like pneumonia, asthma and bronchitis, while in the year 2019 there were more than 1,52,311 deaths.
People above the age of 70 were most affected by respiratory diseases, which were responsible for the majority of deaths, with 29.4% of all registered medically certified deaths belonging to this age group.
This is followed by 23.9% of deaths in the age group of 55-64 years, while a significant number of deaths (4.5%) have also been reported in the age group of 65-69 years.
The highest number of deaths were observed in the age group of 45 years and above which accounts for 82.7% of the total deaths.