Over 8,000 Died By Suicide In 2020 Amid 1st Covid Wave: Home Ministry
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The Home Ministry also said that in the three years between 2018 and 2020, as many as 25,251 lost their lives because of financial crises.
More than 8,000 people died by suicide because of financial crises when the first wave of COVID-19 and an abrupt lockdown left many jobless and hit incomes for months, the government said on Wednesday, in the first such acknowledgement of its kind.
"As many as 8,761 people committed suicide due to unemployment, bankruptcy or indebtedness in the year 2020," Minister of State of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha.
The Home Ministry also said that in the three years between 2018 and 2020, as many as 25,251 lost their lives because of financial crises.
The data assumes significance given that in 2020, the government had told parliament that there was no record of deaths of migrant workers so the "question does not arise" of compensation.
