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According to an RTI, one in 5 people, who died in Delhi of Covid-19 between March and October, were suffering from both diabetes mellitus and hypertension

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Diabetes mellitus and hypertension were the most common comorbid conditions followed by pneumonia who died of Covid-19
According to the RTI around 45% of people did not have any co-morbid conditions.
In Delhi, Covid deaths are categorized such by a Death Audit Committee set up in April. Not all those who died and tested positive for Covid are categorized as Covid deaths.
The committee takes a call on how deaths are categorized. Several countries across the world have reported higher mortality among men as compared to women.
This trend is visible in Delhi as well.
Of the 5,283 deaths for which data is available, two thirds, or 66 %, are male.
The highest number of deaths – 2,697 – was seen in people between the ages of 51 and 70, data shows.
Of those who succumbed to the disease, comorbidities were present in over half the people.
The age group for which co-morbid conditions were the smallest fraction of the total deaths was 21 to 30.
Of the 179 people belonging to this age group who died, only 36 percent had any comorbidity.
It was highest in the 71 and above age group, where 60% of those who died had co-morbid conditions.

The data clearly show diabetes and hypertension are the two diseases, which are also very common in the population, forming the high-risk group.