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India most likely undercounting heat-related deaths: Former WHO chief scientist Soumya SwaminathanIndia is likely undercounting heat-related deaths due to insufficient data, but efforts to improve surveillance are underway, according to ...
India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat wavesIndia's worst heat wave in over a decade, with temperatures exceeding 50°C, left hundreds dead, but the true toll is vastly underreported. ...
View: Three reasons why WHO’s attempt at measuring Covid-19 mortality in India is sensationalistThere is a clear difference between the approaches and end goals of the WHO and India’s national health authorities.
After centre, states reject WHO Covid-19 death numbersThe WHO believes many countries undercounted the numbers who died from Covid-19 but its estimates claim the scale of undercounting has been...
Mala fide intent? No, here is what led to Covid death under-reporting in IndiaMedical complications induced by the virus would go in the medical certificate as the official cause of death simply because there was no C...
Media reports claiming under-reporting of Covid deaths ill-informed, baseless & misleading: GovtIn a statement, the ministry refuted some media reports alleging a "significant undercount" of the actual number of people who have died in...
Covid death count don't reflect actual scale of pandemic, says World Bank in Asia reportIt gives three reasons for the undercount of deaths. One, because of overwhelmed health systems, many COVID deaths occur at home or are ind...
For every single Covid case reported in India, 30 cases were missed or undetected: ExpertHe, however, clarified that it does not mean this was deliberate but simply reflects the performance of the disease surveillance system and...
True deaths due to Covid likely to be in several millions not hundreds of thousands: Arvind SubramanianMost experts believe India's official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns ...
India virus death toll tops 400,000; experts say it's higherMore than half of India's reported coronavirus deaths - the third most of any country - have occurred over the past two months as the the d...
India has undercounted Covid-19 deaths by hundreds of thousands: ReportIndia's undercount has also left a huge gap in the world's understanding of the impact of the Delta variant, which health experts believe h...
Real COVID-19 death toll could be 'two to three' times above official stats: WHOOfficial death tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a "significant undercount", the World Health Organization said on Friday, ...
US ‘undercounted’ 3.4 lakh deaths, India 4.3 lakh: StudyAccording to the analysis in the study “Estimation of total mortality due to Covid-19”, the US and India together may have 7.7 lakh more de...
Delhi has most Covid cases and deaths per million populationThis analysis is based on official data on cases and deaths and hence may be understating the ratios to the extent that these are being und...
Why India's pandemic data is vastly undercountedAs daily case counts soar far beyond what other countries have reported, experts caution the official COVID-19 numbers from the world's sec...
How poor regions lose out because of U.S. census undercountsThe administration of President Donald Trump has placed other hurdles on the path to an accurate count. Its attempt to add a question about...
Died of Covid, or died with Covid? As countries raise toll, questions arise about the reported deathsEven in non-Covid times, only about 22% of deaths are medically certified in India, while roughly 10 lakh deaths a year don’t even get regi...