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While the Union government vehemently opposed excess death estimates, it has so far not rejected claims made in a study published in the Lancet about deaths prevented by the vaccination programme.
India had also informed WHO that in view of the availability of authentic data published through Civil Registration System (CRS) by Registrar General of India (RGI), mathematical models should not be used for projecting excess mortality numbers for India.
India today strongly objected to the methodology adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to project excess mortality estimates based on mathematical models.