NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday rejected a report released by the New York Times about India’s Covid death toll also called it”completely baseless and untrue”.
In its name, the NYT estimated that India’s”actual” Covid death toll may be far higher than that which has formally been reported.
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It asserted that in the more probable situation, India’s Covid-related deaths may end up to 1.
6 million in relation to 3.
15 lakh that’s been reported.
During a press briefing today, the authorities stated the NYT report relies on twisted quotes and not endorsed by any actual evidence.
There were other reports indicating the India, and many different nations around the planet including the US, have significantly underreported their own Covid death toll.
This past year, there have been lots of reports that indicated that China, in which the virus originated, had concealed its real Covid toll.