12 lakh excess deaths in Covid year, estimates study; govt says methodology flawed | India News – Times of India
Researchers from several universities, including Oxford, have used mortality data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 to estimate that there were almost 12 lakh excess deaths in 2020, eight times the official number of Covid-19 deaths in India that year. The health ministry has dismissed the estimate as “gross and misleading” and criticised the…