Abstract
Background and aims
COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Method
We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as ‘COVID-19’, ‘Pandemics’, ‘disease outbreaks’ and ‘India’ on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic and assessed mortality data.
Results
The mortality observed in Indian and south Asian subcontinent is lower than in the west.
Multifactorial reasons indicated for this differential mortality due to COVID-19 have been described in the current literature.
Conclusions
The effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging with disproportionate burden of illness and death amongst some black and ethnic minority groups. Overall the current COVID-19 related mortality appears to be lower in the health and resource challenged populous Indian subcontinent. Further scientific studies would be helpful to understand this disparity in mortality due to COVID-19 in the world population.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, public health, coronavirus, India, disease outbreaks, Pandemics, 【초록키워드】 Mortality, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 disease, Health, death, group, mortality data, resource, Google Scholar, Indian subcontinent, Asian, Racial, lower mortality, COVID-19 related mortality, Effect, Result, described, carried, indicated, appear, groups, Gate, 【제목키워드】 Mortality, COVID-19 patient, country,