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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Setback for India, WHO Disagrees With Govt Data on COVID Deaths -Banjot Kaur

In Setback for India, WHO Disagrees With Govt Data on COVID Deaths -Banjot Kaur

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published Published on Apr 3, 2022   modified Modified on Apr 4, 2022

-TheWire.in

* Soon to be released WHO data has estimated that at least four-times as many people died during the COVID-19 pandemic as India has officially recorded.

* According to a report published late last month, Indian government officials disputed the WHO’s claim and asked that the data release be delayed by 10 years.

* The WHO has cited an obligation on its part to release the data, and told The Wire Science that it would do so while “noting India’s reservation”.

New Delhi: Even as the Indian government has, at every turn, dismissed researchers and research institutions that have said the country’s excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic far surpass the official record, it has come up against a challenger it may find is not so easy to ignore: the World Health Organisation.

Ahead of releasing data about the world’s ‘official’ number of excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has set the cat among the pigeons of Indian government officials by recording that India’s toll was at least four-times higher than what government records show – and has also recorded the Indian government’s request that the WHO numbers be delayed by “10 years”, according to a news report.

Two members of a technical advisory group (TAG) that prepared the forthcoming report have confirmed to The Wire Science that its findings are at odds with the Indian government’s claims about the number of people who died due to COVID-19 in the country since early 2020 – and in line with independent researchers estimated.

This conclusion is likely to seriously challenge India’s insistence of the integrity of its data collection system. The WHO has effectively stamped its authority on all those studies that disputed the official figures, especially those whose estimates are closer to the WHO’s own. The WHO itself carries some heft by virtue of being an agency of the United Nations, of which India is one member state.

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TheWire.in, 3 April, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/health/india-who-delay-covid-excess-deaths-data-10-years-setback/?fbclid=IwAR2H2NPK-Xx9fy-i6DLphBkPZ-Xk1iTfrqP1vBmgk0ZHHgSk8iJvSXuLpD8


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