Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 12
Rejecting as speculative a report in The Economist claiming five to seven times excess deaths in India over and above the official figures, the government today said the country was following the WHO’s ICD-10 codes for mortality reporting.
The Health Ministry said it had been transparent in Covid management and in May last, the ICMR had issued guidelines for appropriate recording of Covid deaths in India as per the ICD-10 mortality coding.
“The methodologies for such studies are well established. But a renowned international magazine has speculated that India has suffered perhaps five to seven times excess deaths than the official toll. This is devoid of basis. The unsound analysis is based on extrapolation of data without any epidemiological evidence,” the government said on a day when India reported 84,332 new cases, a 70-day low.
India has recorded less than 1 lakh daily new cases for five days now. Daily positivity rate remained below 5 per cent at 4.39 per cent today in signs of a receding second wave. Cumulative Covid vaccine doses administered crossed 25 crore.
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