New Delhi, May 5: The government of India has challenged the estimates of the country’s Covid deaths by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The government has raised questions over the validity of the estimate model used by the international public health body.
On Thursday, the world health body that 14.9 million people were killed either by Covid-19 directly or due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society, with the global health agency estimating that India had 4.7 million fatalities.
Following the report, India strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the WHO for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic in view of the availability of authentic data. The Indian government said that the validity and robustness of the models used and methodology of data collection are questionable.
