India, March 8 -- The Covid-19 pandemic affected almost all aspects of human life. In fact, there is enough evidence that it is still impacting how we work, live, plan for the future.

The continuing impact has its roots in the different kinds of losses the pandemic caused, some of which are now, finally, being reversed. How do we summarise the human cost of the pandemic?

Lives

This was a loss that cannot be reversed, and whose accounting will continue into the future, led by researchers and journalists.

HT maintained its own database of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries collated from bulletins issued by different states and union territories. As states gradually stopped publishing these bulletins, HT used data from the health min...