India and the World Health Organization are at odds over the latter’s new estimates of 47 lakh extra deaths in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 — an assessment strongly contested by the government, which cited flawed methodology, inaccurate data sourcing, inconsistencies in criteria, and the UN health agency’s use of assumptions for projections.
The WHO estimates are nearly ten times higher than the official count of 4.84 lakh Covid-19 fatalities in these two years.
According to a new WHO report, more than twice as many people have died as a result of Covid-19 as official data shows, with 14.9 million excess deaths (149,00,000) predicted by the end of 2021. The total number of people reported by countries was 6 million (60 lakh).
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