Rajya Sabha member and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader John Brittas on Monday sought an exhaustive review of the data pertaining to COVID-19 deaths in India following media reports that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has placed the country’s coronavirus fatalities way higher than the number reported by the Union government.
In a letter to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, the CPI(M) member from Kerala sought necessary directions to the authorities concerned to take urgent action to conduct an extensive review of the data pertaining to COVID-19 deaths in the country and to take proactive action to deal with a possible future wave of the pandemic efficiently and effectively.
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