Among infectious diseases, covid-19 already stands apart, but non-communicable diseases are in general biggest killers in India Last Thursday, covid-19 became India’s most deadly infectious disease, with the exception of tuberculosis.
In its National Health Profile (NHP) statistics for 2019, the government listed eleven communicable diseases with the highest case fatality rates (over 1%).
In just four months, officially reported deaths from covid-19 surpassed the annual count of officially reported deaths from H1N1, which was until now the infectious disease from this list that resulted in the most deaths in 2018 (the most recent year for which comparable data is available for all eleven diseases).