Covid death recount: Late reporting is not peculiar to India alone

In June three states — Maharashtra, Bihar and Goa — reported around 8,000 fatalities not recorded earlier, pushing up the death count. However, such late reporting of deaths or cases is not peculiar to India alone

-At least 8 states have reported unusually high fatality figures on some days

-Even the Covid test number was revised up 7.6 million
Revision after aggregate numbers were reconciled with state data

-Reasons for delay in reporting

• Late reporting of deaths by hospitals and clinics
• Delay in updating of data or reconciliation
• Data not reported regularly

-Happens elsewhere too

• 1,500 more deaths reported in US count after adding Indiana backlog
• Last month Oklahoma & Maryland added backlogged deaths
• In April, Oklahoma added many deaths from previous months
• In Oct, UK reported more than 12K covid infections, including unspecified number of deaths