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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Health expert urges govt to resolve debate over Covid death toll -GS Mudur

Health expert urges govt to resolve debate over Covid death toll -GS Mudur

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published Published on Apr 20, 2022   modified Modified on Apr 20, 2022

-The Telegraph

Centre questions each estimation exercise, says the numbers have emerged from extrapolation, limited datasets and unproven assumptions

New Delhi: A top public health expert has urged the government to help resolve the intense debate over India’s Covid-19 death toll by using the population census later this year to directly count the dead over the past two years.

Prabhat Jha, professor at the Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto, Canada, who has for over 20 years worked with the Indian government to attribute causes of annual deaths, said the census questionnaire should include one additional question: “Since January 1, 2020, has there been a death in this house from any cause and, if so, age, sex and date (either week or month).”

“This single question would be the best technical, political and moral solution to the huge debate on Covid-19 deaths in India,” said Jha, who is among researchers who have led independent studies to estimate excess deaths in the country over the past two years.

Those studies — published between July 2021 and March 2022 — have estimated the country’s excess deaths as ranging from 3 million to 4.9 million, in line with a forthcoming World Health Organisation assessment estimating 4 million deaths. India’s official count of Covid-19 deaths was 521,966 on Tuesday.

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The Telegraph, 20 April, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/health-expert-urges-government-to-resolve-debate-over-covid-19-death-toll/cid/1861424


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