This will increase the CCCFR, by a lot, if cases have been rising rapidly, as in India’s case or a little, if they have stabilised, as in Italy’s case. This is calculated by multiplying Italy’s age-specific CFR in column (3) to the age-specific number of cases in India in column (7). If it had Italy’s age-specific CCCFR, Maharashtra would have reduced its deaths by two-thirds and applying Maharashtra’s CCCFR to India would increase the national number of deaths by 50%. Instead of being among the lowest, India’s age-adjusted death rate is actually higher than Italy’s, which, as seen in Figure 1, has among the highest aggregate CCCFRs. ICMR too needs to release age-specific case loads.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2020 22:16 UTC