Doubting govt. data on COVID-19 death toll, Congress seeks audit

Accusing the BJP government in the State of ‘misrepresenting’ actual number of deaths due to COVID-19, the Congress in Mysuru on Thursday demanded that the government come clean on the fatalities by c

Accusing the BJP government in the State of ‘misrepresenting’ actual number of deaths due to COVID-19, the Congress in Mysuru on Thursday demanded that the government come clean on the fatalities by carrying out a death audit during the second wave in the State. Party spokesperson M. Lakshmana, quoting some unconfirmed data on the COVID-19 deaths, maintained that nearly one lakh people in the State have succumbed to the contagion but the government’s figures on the death toll were altogether different. “In Mysuru alone, one of the worst affected districts in the State, the number of deaths exceeded the government’s records.” Speaking to reporters, he alleged that the Mysuru district administration was delaying reporting of COVID-19 deaths and the previous deaths recorded as backlog fatalities were now being reported and added to the bulletins causing panic among worried Mysureans.