COVID-19 Update / 7 times more deaths in India? Amidst the claims, the new figures of the states raised questions

The effect of the second wave of Corona virus in the country has started to reduce. However, still the crisis is not completely stuck. During this epidemic, many questions were raised on the health system. Also, a big question is going on on the figures of deaths from Corona. The opposition is being accused of hiding data on the central government continuously, while foreign Magazine has also claimed something about

Vikrant Shekhawat : Jun 14, 2021, 11:00 AM
The effect of the second wave of Corona virus in the country has started to reduce. However, still the crisis is not completely stuck. During this epidemic, many questions were raised on the health system. Also, a big question is going on on the figures of deaths from Corona. The opposition is being accused of hiding data on the central government continuously, while foreign Magazine has also claimed something about it.

Indeed, in the last two months in India, nearly two thousand people have died. But many people have been claiming that the figure of death is far more. In this many states recently added old deaths when added to their records, it increased. Now a foreign magazine claimed that the figure of death from Corona in India can be 5 to 7 times more.

What is the real truth of the death figure from Corona? What are the deaths as much as possible, the figure is multiplied more than that? Or are the claims being made on the figures of death? There is a big confrontation on these questions.


International magazines have shocked claims ...

There has been a big claim about India in an article published in the famous International Magazine The Economist. It was said that officially the deaths of Corona were shown in India, in fact there will be five to seven times more deaths. In the Articles of the Economist, this claim was done on the basis of the Research of Christopher Lofler of America's Virginia Commonwealth University.

According to this research, there has been more than 20 lakh deaths from Corona in India. While India's official figure is close to 3 lakh 70 thousand on death from Corona. But this is not the first article, it is not the first International Magazine, who claimed that the figures of death from Corona in India, from which the big question raised.

Earlier, the American Newspaper New York Times also claimed that if there is a lot of death from Corona in India, at least 6 lakh deaths have occurred. And if this estimate is seen in a very terrible situation of Corona, then the death figure from Corona in India can also be 42 lakh.


Surprisingly, such estimates and such reports have already dismissed the government. This is a concocted estimate. But along with these foreign estimates, the questions were raised on the right figures of death by many reports in the country.

In a report, a report was said to be studied about Telangana and the Insurance claimed the claim that there was no reporting of at least 8 thousand deaths from Corona. But now the government has given direct answers to all such studies, such claims, estimates and speculation on the figure of death from Corona.

In the article that has been reported in the Economist, the figure of death has been reported. On that, the government said that the studies which made the basis for estimating death figures in the report are not a valid tool to decide the mortality. In such a way that the epidemic data is not studied in such a way, all these claims are imaginary and the illusions are going to spread.

Apart from this, the reports in which the real data of death were told by the help of Insurance Claim. There is no scientific basis. The data of those agencies were used in claims that spread illusions on death figures, the agencies who have no experience related to public health.

That is, the government has to say that no matter how much increase on death figures, but these figures can not be believed. The government claims that there is full transparency on Corona figures, there is no disturbance in the figure of death, so the guidelines of ICMR and WHO are followed.

Data related to the state is studied. Central Health Minister Dr. Harshvardhan has also tweeted that by an international magazine, claiming that 5 to 7 times more people have died from official figures from Corona in India, completely wrong. The studies which have created the basis of the magazine are not valid tools to decide the death rate of a country or region.

Where the figures of death are constantly looking less, it is asked to check again. Now even though the big claims of many times the big figure should not be right, but it is true that in many states the death has come out in the figure of death.

As Bihar had suddenly added 72 percent old deaths in the deaths in the second wave. Uttarakhand has added 922 old deaths to record. From May 1, Maharashtra has added about 9 thousand additional deaths. On June 13, Maharashtra has included more than 2 thousand old deaths in figures. Maharashtra, Bihar,