India gainsays WHO’s report on COVID deaths

NEW DELHI, May 5: India on Thursday strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health Organization (WHO) for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic in view of the availability of authentic data, saying validity and robustness of the models used and methodology of data collection are questionable.
In a report released on Thursday, the WHO estimated that there were 4.7 million Covid deaths in India — 10 times the official figures and almost a third of Covid deaths globally.
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