So, as per the WHO estimates, roughly one-third of the global extra deaths over 2020 and 2021 is from India, while India's share of the global population is in between one-sixth and one-fifth. Thus the rate of extra deaths during the pandemic in India is nearly double that of the global average. The Indian government, as expected, has disputed the estimate. What, however, is undisputed is that India appears to be the only country where dead bodies floated in rivers at the peak of the pandemic.
<<Covid could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021, either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. The figure, disputed by India, is nearly ten times the country’s official Covid death toll of 4.81 lakh at the end of 2021. In its report on excess deaths due to Covid, WHO said that an estimated 1.5 crore people are likely to have succumbed to the direct or indirect impact of the disease globally during the first two years of the pandemic — instead of the 54 lakh that have been recorded officially by countries separately.>> (Excerpted from: < https://indianexpress.com/article/world/covid-19-global-death-toll-official-data-who-7903072/ >.) Pandemic and the Modi regime: A Case of Grotesque Data Manipulation? Two comments. I/II. <<Deaths due to COVID-19 in India remain a contentious topic of debate. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently analysed that the actual pandemic toll of the country is four million, a claim that the Union health ministry has denied based on the “validity and accuracy” of the modelling exercise used. The Narendra Modi government has also been accused of stalling WHO analysis on excess deaths. His government maintained that about half a million people have died of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while the global health body’s analysis claimed the toll is at least eight times higher — the most any country has recorded throughout the pandemic.>> (Excerpted from: < https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/covid-19-india-s-erratic-cfr-makes-it-difficult-to-calculate-toll-over-2-years-experts-suggest-alternatives-82604 >.) II. Please watch an informed discussion between Karan Thapar and mathematician Dr. Murad Banaji: <https://youtu.be/xiWFcrrnnd8>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZgMA_93MJX2Q%2B9V1RsJQ1HXtxh%3DkE37f9RVFEQx3UfeTw%40mail.gmail.com.
