News agency ANI has reported that the Union government to a report that claims India had at least 2.7-3.3 million deaths due to Covid-19, stating in a press release it has been “transparent” in its approach related to Covid-19 data management.
An official report stated that “It is clarified that the Union government has been transparent in its approach to Covid-19 data management and a robust system of recording all Covid-19 related deaths already exists. All states and union territories have been entrusted with the responsibility to update the data on a continuous basis,” the release read. It also dismissed as “totally fallacious” the study’s conclusion of the country’s “actual” toll due to the coronavirus disease being “7-8 times higher than the official toll.”
The statement further said, “The CRS follows the process of data collection, cleaning, collating and publishing the numbers which, though a long-drawn process, ensures no deaths are missed out. Because of the expanse and amplitude of the activity, the numbers are usually published the next year,”
However, the country has officially registered 421,382 fatalities to date. The Union Health Ministry and Family Welfare have reported 415 deaths in the last 24 hours. About half of the total deaths took place in April and May this year, as per data shared by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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