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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Official Statistics on COVID-19 Not True': SC Directs Quick Payment of Ex-Gratia

'Official Statistics on COVID-19 Not True': SC Directs Quick Payment of Ex-Gratia

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published Published on Feb 5, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2022

-TheWire.in

A bench comprising Justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna said that state governments cannot say that fraudulent claims are being made by families of COVID-19 victims.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court highlighted that official statistics on COVID-19 deaths, released by states, were “not true” and directed state governments to pay compensation to relatives of deceased people who have applied without rejecting the claims on technical grounds.

“Official statistics are not true on death figures and it cannot be said fraudulent claims are being made (by families of COVID-19 victims,” a bench comprising Justices M.R. Shah and B.V. Nagarathna said, according to Times of India.

As The Wire Science has reported, a study described in a scientific paper, published on January 6, 2022 and led by demographer and epidemiologist Prabhat Jha found that India’s estimated COVID-19 death toll from June 2020 to July 2021 was 3.2 million – with 2.7 million probably occurring during the second wave alone. India’s official death toll to date is around 0.48 million.

The Wire, The Wire Science, as well as several other outlets have reported on COVID-19 deaths far in excess of the number presented by various state governments.

A recent report held how in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh alone, 3,59,496 excess deaths between March 2020 and June 2021 over those in the corresponding months in 2019. In contrast, the Union government has said 4,82,017 have died of COVID-19 in India until January 4. The official death count for the three states together was 28,609 till early January.

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TheWire.in, 5 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/law/official-statistics-on-covid-19-not-true-sc-directs-quick-payment-of-ex-gratia


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