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A WHO report on excess mortality during COVID which is yet to be released has found that India has underreported COVID deaths and the actual COVID death toll could be close to 4 million
Centre questions each estimation exercise, says the numbers have emerged from extrapolation, limited datasets and unproven assumptions
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In a written reply, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha that at times, certain reports have speculated excess deaths, that is, higher than the official number of COVID-19 fatalities reported by India.
The government on Tuesday junked recent reports of excess Covid 19 deaths in India saying these reports mostly relied on unvalidated methodologies.