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To Rubbish WHO’s 2020 COVID Death Estimates, India Used Flawed Data, Analysis -Shreegireesh Jalihal and Tapasya

-TheWire.in * On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. * In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry claimed that 81.20 lakh people died in 2020 – even lower than the number estimated to have died in 2019. * But the health ministry was wrong by a long margin and by its own findings in a national report released earlier this year: the National Family Health Survey. The Union government has used a flawed dataset to rubbish the WHO’s 2020 COVID-19 death estimates, according to the fine print of official death data and a recently released government survey analysed by The Reporters’ Collective. On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. The Union government, which has often claimed to have done a splendid job to soften the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, rubbished the WHO’s numbers. In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry said, “Registration of births and deaths in India is extremely robust and is governed by decades-old statutory legal framework i.e. Births & Deaths Registration Act, 1969.” Please click here to read more.