India will take up the “glaring anomalies’’ in the report by the World Health Organisation on excess mortality estimates associated with the COVID-19 pandemic at the highest and appropriate forum, said sources in the Health Ministry on Thursday.
India has objected to the sourcing of data, methodology for collecting data, mathematical model used for arriving at the final figures that have been released, the outcome of the data analyses and the fact that it has been listed in tier-2 countries despite being open to share all data with the WHO.
India has been consistently objecting to the methodology adopted by the WHO to project excess mortality estimates based on mathematical models. Despite India’s objection to the process, methodology and outcome of this modelling exercise, the WHO has released the excess mortality estimates without adequately addressing India’s concerns, the Ministry said in a response issued after the report was officially released.
