
CPI seeks White Paper on COVID-19 deaths
The Hindu
Govt. hiding the actual number of fatalities, says Ramakrishna
Accusing the State government of hiding the deaths caused due to coronavirus infection, CPI State secretary K. Ramakrishna on Tuesday demanded that a white paper be released on the actual number of fatalities. Quoting the figures from the Central government’s Civil Register for May this year, Mr. Ramakrishna said the data suggest of the 1.30 lakh fatalities reported from the country 11,000 were from Andhra Pradesh when compared to 2,938 deaths shown by the State government.More Related News

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