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NEW DELHI (AP) Indias excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern Indias worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the South Asian country.
Most experts believe Indias official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading.
The report released Tuesday estimated excess deaths the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected to be 3 million to 4.7 million between January 2020 and June 2021. It said an accurate figure may prove elusive but the true death toll is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count.
The report was published by Arvind Subramanian, the Indian governments former chief economic adviser, and two other researchers at the Center for Global Development, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, and Harvard University.
https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-india-pandemics-334c326d86efa73a0631bf7cb6e3f92e
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(25,841 posts)means an awful lot of people are simply never accounted for. At any time, or for any reason.