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India Covid death toll highest in world, says WHO as govt rejects report

India's official Covid death toll is 481,486 between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021

Students undergo thermal screening as schools reopen after a gap of two years in view of the Coronavirus pandemic, at Spring Buds Educational Institute Ompora, in Budgam. Photo: ANI

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Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from earlier years

Sohini Das Sachin Mampatta Mumbai/Thrissur

2 min read Last Updated : May 06 2022 | 2:03 AM IST

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has put the number of Covid-19 deaths in India at around 4.7 million, which the highest in the world. The deaths, according to the report released on Thursday, could be directly due to the disease or indirectly caused by the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society. India’s Covid toll is approximately a third of the global death number, the report said.

The WHO estimate of Covid deaths in India is 10-times the official count, and the government has strongly rejected the figure and the methodology. In an official statement, the Union Health Ministry

Topics : Coronavirus Delta variant of coronavirus Omicron World Health Organization Death toll government of India

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