Centre Refutes Oxford Study Claiming India Saw 8 Times More Covid Deaths
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The study led by Indian-origin researchers showed that India experienced eight times higher Covid deaths than the official number in India.
Calling it a "gross and misleading overestimate", the centre on Saturday refuted claims of excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic in India, as stated in a study led by Indian-origin researchers from Oxford University and published in the US-based academic journal Science Advances.
The study showed that India experienced 17% higher or 1.19 million more deaths in 2020 than the previous year -- eight times higher than the official number of Covid deaths in India, and 1.5 times higher than the World Health Organization's estimates.
The findings "are based on untenable and unacceptable estimates. The paper published today is methodologically flawed and shows results that are untenable and unacceptable," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said.
