Concerns With Method, Says India On Report Of "Stalling" WHO Covid Report
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The health ministry's statement came in response to a New York Times article titled "India Is Stalling WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public" dated April 16.
India on Saturday questioned the World Health Organisation's methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities in the country, saying using such a mathematical modelling cannot be applied to estimate the death figures for such a vast nation of geographical size and population.
The Union health ministry issued a statement in response to a New York Times article titled “India Is Stalling WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public” dated April 16, saying the country has on several occasions shared its concerns with the global health body over the methodology used.
India has been in regular and in-depth technical exchange with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the issue.
The analysis, which uses mortality figures directly obtained from Tier I set of countries, uses a mathematical modelling process for Tier II countries (which includes India), the ministry said. "India's basic objection has not been with the result (whatever they might have been), but rather the methodology adopted for the same," it said.
