India's Covid toll may be close to 50 lakh; worst human tragedy since partition: US study

Nearly 50 lakh (4.9 million) may have died from Covid-19 in India between January 2020 and June 2021, making it arguably the country's worst human tragedy since Partition and independence, a new US study has said, even as the Delta variant of the coronavirus is causing a fresh wave of concern across the world.