WHO: 14.9m Covid-19 deaths in the world, 4.74m in India
India objects to “the use of mathematical models for projecting excess mortality estimates in view of the availability of authentic data.” By N Ahmad New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million The WHO’s estimates indicate that while India experienced roughly 830,000 excess deaths in 2020, the country saw over 3.9 million excess deaths in 2021. Of these, 2.3 million deaths took place over two months – April and May 2021...