Aftermore than 3 lakh deaths during the pandemic, an IANS-CVoter survey showed 58per cent people who lost their lives were completely healthy before gettinginfected.
Therespondents also said 10.9 per cent of the deceased did not have any seriousailments but were not completely healthy; 17.5 of the victims had seriousailment like heart disease, diabetes, TB, Cancer, while 13.3 per cent did notknow about it.
A21.2 per cent of the deaths were in the age group of above 66 years; followedby age group of 36 to 45 which had 19.1 per cent deaths due to Covid; 18.3deaths occurred in age group of 56 to 65 years, while 16.1 per cent lost theirlives in the group of 46 to 55 years.
Moreand more analysis revealed that most of the deaths occurred in the agegroupbelow 45. which was 36 per cent of the total deaths. This was followed by 34.4per cent in age group of 46 to 65 years while 21 percent died above this agegroup.
Thefield survey was done between January 1 and May 27, 2021 and samples werespread in all 542 Lok Sabha seats across all states, with error of +/- 3% atmacro level and +/- 5% at micro level with Sample Size of 56685
Indiaon Sunday reported 1.65 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours with 3,460 deaths-- one of the lowest since April 12, the Union Health and Family WelfareMinistry said.
India'soverall tally stands at 2,77,29,247 with 22,28,724 active cases, and 3,22,512deaths, so far.
In18 days India had recorded over 68,000 deaths.
Indiaregistered record deaths due to Covid on May 21 with 4,529 deaths -- thehighest number of fatalities from Covid infection in any country since thecoronavirus outbreak was reported in China's Wuhan in December 2019.
Itsurpassed 4,468 deaths in the US on January 12, and earlier 4,211 in Brazil onApril 6.
Afterbattling a brutal second wave for weeks, fresh Covid cases came down below thethree lakh-mark for the first time on May 17 after touching record high of4,14,188 on May 7.