The World Health Organisation is in the midst of coming up with COVID-19 excess mortality estimates for all the 194 countries that are its members. The Indian government has been placing objections on the way this exercise is being done for a few months now. After a few reports came out on the subject, the Indian government responded in a press release saying that they have a quarrel with the methodology of the WHO. 

To understand this entire controversy, Suno India’s Menaka Rao spoke to Amruta Byatnal  who broke the story on this issue on March 30. She is a senior editor with Devex, a website on global development, and is based in New Delhi.

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The true death toll of COVID-19: estimating global excess mortality
Exclusive: The pushback against WHO’s imminent COVID-19 excess deaths estimate | Devex
Global excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public – The New York Times
In response to New York Times article titled “India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public” dated 16th April, 2022