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. 2021 May-Jun;153(5-6):546–549. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_365_21

Table II.

Age- and sex-stratified infection fatality ratios, August and October 2020, Chennai, India

Characteristics First serosurvey (July17-28, 2020) Second survey (October 8-15, 2020)


Number of COVID-19 deaths* Number of COVID-19 infections (95% CI) IFR per 10,000 infections (95% CI) Number of COVID-19 deaths** Number of COVID-19 infections (95% CI) IFR per 10,000 infections (95% CI)
Overall 2246 1,295,908 (1,040,975-1,593,330) 17.3 (14.1-21.6) 3520 2,473,238 (2,029,534-2,966,242) 16.6 (13.8-20.2)
Sex
Male 1556 574,859 (454,209-716,799) 27.1 (21.7-34.3) 2438 1,222,608 (999,565-1,474,564) 23.3 (19.3-28.5)
Female 690 713,657 (57,5872-879,706) 9.7 (7.8-12.0) 1082 1,250,409 (1.021,576-1,503,760) 10.0 (8.4-12.3)
Age (yr)
10-19 5 234,050 (180,914-298,571) 0.2 (0.2-0.3) 5 320,058 (248,234-401,963) 0.2 (0.1-0.2)
20-29 26 333,664 (264,352-415,871) 0.8 (0.6-1.0) 33 463,976 (372,465-568,331) 0.7 (0.6-0.9)
30-39 82 264,175 (207,253-331,313) 3.1 (2.5-4.0) 104 465,181 (376,506-565,486) 2.2 (1.8-2.8)
40-49 209 220,481 (173,399-276,749) 9.5 (7.6-12.1) 292 383,154 (311,098-463,216) 7.6 (6.3-9.4)
50-59 447 156,962 (123,215-196,987) 28.5 (22.7-36.3) 640 240,755 (191,509-297,035) 26.6 (21.5-33.4)
≥60 1477 105,528 (80,364-137,998) 140.0 (107.0-183.8) 2446 219,914 (172,212-274,084) 111.2 (89.2-142.0)

*Deaths as on August 3, 2020, **Deaths as on October 23, 2020. CI, confidence interval; IFR, infection fatality ratio