India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from Covid-19 after its calculations suggested that the country had undercounted its dead by an estimated 3.5 million.
The figure tallies with previous estimates made by scientists, data analysts and medical journals that the true number of deaths from Covid in India was up‘We’re burning pyres all day’: India accused of undercounting deaths According to reports, the WHO had wanted to release the data in January but have received considerable pushback from the Indian government, which have refused to accept the figure and methodology as correct.
Addressing a New York Times report in which the accusation was made, the Indian government said it was in discussion with the WHO. “India’s basic objection has not been with the result but rather the methodology adopted for the same,” it said in an statement, which alleged the mathematical modelling was “questionable” and “statistically unproven”.
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