-Hindustan Times Going by WHO’s estimates, India’s true death toll due to Covid-19 comes to approximately 10 times the 481,000 Covid-19 fatalities recorded till December 31, 2021. The World Health Organization’s estimates that 4.74 million lives were lost in India due to Covid-19 is flawed, the Union government said on Thursday with a rebuttal pointing out four major grounds on to dispute the finding. Going by WHO’s estimates, India’s true death toll due...
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India Has Max Covid Deaths, Says WHO; Incorrect, Says Government -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com "India has consistently questioned WHO's own admission that data in respect of seventeen Indian states was obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their mathematical model," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. New Delhi: India has strongly refuted the World Health Organisation's use of mathematical model to calculate the number of Covid deaths, saying the "figure is totally removed from reality". Contending that the country...
More »Delhi records 1485 Covid cases in 24 hours, positivity rate stands at 4.89% -Amit Bhardwaj
-IndiaToday.in (with PTI inputs) Delhi reported 1,485 fresh COVID-19 cases and zero fatality due to the viral disease on Sunday, while the positivity rate was recorded at 4.89 per cent. Delhi recorded 1485 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, while the positivity rate stands at 4.89 per cent. Zero death were reported while 154 people were hospitalised after testing positive for Covid-19 in Delhi. On Friday, it saw 1,607 Covid-19 cases and...
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-South Asia Netwrok on Dams, Rivers and People In addition to destruction of rivers eco-system and disruption of environmental services to riparian communities, the illegal and unsustainable sand mining practices in India have also been causing avoidable violence and accidents resulting in scores of human deaths and injuries on annual basis. However, there is no comprehensive picture emerging on this man made disaster. To fill the gap, SANDRP has been trying...
More »Health expert urges govt to resolve debate over Covid death toll -GS Mudur
-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...
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