WHO Estimates of Excess COVID-19 Mortality and India's Objections

Recently there has been a controversy regarding the WHO estimates of COVID-19 mortality, where India has raised objections to the estimates and questioned its methodology.
Newsclick Team
Recently there has been a controversy regarding the WHO estimates of COVID-19 mortality, where India has raised objections to the estimates and questioned its methodology. The WHO estimates put COVID-19 deaths in India at 4.74 million as against the official count of 0.48 million deaths by the end of 2021. Gautam Menon, faculty at Ashoka University and Prabir Purkayastha, editor-in-chief of NewsClick discuss the issue in-depth.

 

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