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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Covid-19: India accused of trying to delay WHO revision of death toll

Healthcare workers stand at the entrance of a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad in January 2022.
Healthcare workers stand at the entrance of a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad in January 2022. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from Covid-19 after its calculations suggested that the country had undercounted its dead by an estimated 3.5 million.

India’s official number of deaths from Covid is 520,000. But according to in-depth analysis and investigations into the data by WHO, the total is more than 4 million, which would be by far the highest country death toll in the world.

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