92 percent of people who died of COVID-19 this year in India were unvaccinated, said Union government officials on 3 March.
Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Dr Balaram Bhargava, director general, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) added that data from the national database shows a sharp fall in COVID related deaths in India between April 2021 and February 2022.
The data was collated from three government sources CoWIN, ICMR testing, and the COVID India portal of the Union ministry of health.