Why India rejects the World Health Organization's COVID-19 death toll estimates - ABC News


5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Annika Burgess

New World Health Organization data suggests almost half of the world's unrecorded COVID deaths happened in India, but the government insists its official death toll remains at about half a million. Why does the data differ so drastically?

In April 2021, Kailash Tiwari lost his previously healthy 100-year-old father in India to COVID-19. Soon after that, two close family members aged in their 60s died with the virus. Several of his f… [+10036 chars]

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