
Kerala to add ‘missing’ COVID-19 deaths to the official list
The Hindu
Kerala added 563 new deaths to its list of official COVID-19 deaths on Friday. Of these, 292 were those that had remained pending, or as the State claims, had been kept undeclared because of incomplete documentation
The State has begun adding the “missing” or undeclared COVID-19 deaths to the list of official deaths, three weeks after Health Minister Veena George declared in the Assembly that 7,000 “missing” deaths would be added so.
On Friday, the State added 563 new deaths to its list of official COVID-19 deaths. Of these, 292 were those that had remained pending, or as the State claims, had been kept undeclared because of incomplete documentation. These are demises that belonged to the period before June 2021 when deaths began to be declared directly from districts through an online process.

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