Is India's Covid-19 death rate five times higher than official figures suggest?
India is still riding the vicious tail of its first wave of Covid-19 infections. A country of 1.5 billion people has apparently has a death toll mercifully lower than expected. Officially, 141,000 people have died and the country has had 9.7 million cases. But there is a school of thought which argues this vastly underestimates reality. Dr Arun Madhavan is a GP in the southern State of Kerala. Dr Madhavan estimates the death toll to be at least five times higher than is currently being reported play-icon Created with Sketch. With a group of dedicated colleagues he has been monitoring dea...
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