India doesn’t agree to WHO’s estimate of Covid-19 deaths: Union Health Minister
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday that India does not agree with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) estimate of Covid-19 mortalities in the country.
India records its deaths due to Covid through a transparent and legal process and does not agree to the WHO’s estimate of Covid-19 mortality for the country, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday.
He also said the 14th Conference of Central Council of Health & Family Welfare (CCHFW) passed a resolution in this regard.
The resolution was passed on the second day of the three-day CCHFW ‘Swasthya Chintab Shivir’, which concluded here on Saturday.
Mandaviya said the registration of births and deaths in the country is extremely robust and is governed by the decades-old statutory legal framework the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1969.
“On the 2nd day of the conference of the CCHFW yesterday we have passed a resolution that we do not agree to the WHO’s estimate of Covid mortality for India,” he said, referring to the WHO estimate of 4.7 million Covid-related deaths in India.
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“India records its deaths through a transparent and legal process. All the states and union territories provided correct and authentic data to the registry,” he said.
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