Let them send details: Delhi Health Minister on MCD's Covid-19 death toll

The Delhi govt, in a statement on Thursday had said the Covid-19 death audit committee is "working impartially"

A day after the MCD claimed that the Covid-19 death toll in Delhi stood at 2,098, nearly twice the official figures shared by the city government, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday said, "Let them send the details to us."

He also dismissed speculation about the extension of the lockdown, saying it wouldn't be.

On a question about the Covid-19 death toll claimed by the civic bodies, he said, all Covid-19 protocols are being followed in the cremation or burial of bodies of people infected, or suspected to have been infected by the virus. Senior leaders of the three