NEW DELHI : Despite India reporting nearly 200 COVID-19 deaths in last one month, the country's death rate of about 3% is lower than the global rate, and also much lower than several European countries like the UK, Italy and Spain, according to some medical experts.

India had reported its first COVID-19 death from Karnataka on 10 March. Suggesting that a relatively young Indian population may be one of the reasons for the low mortality rate due to the pandemic, experts have attributed the high number of fatalities in countries like Italy and Spain to their elderly population which are more susceptible to developing complications after contracting the infection.

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Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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