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We dug into India’s mysteriously low coronavirus fatality figures. We found both misreported deaths and signs of “excess” unexplained deaths linked to the pandemic /1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-1-million-cases-death-toll/2020/07/17/9c6aacac-c0a2-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
In Vadodara, the number of coronavirus cases rose by more than 2,000 since June, but the official death count barely budged from 57 to 60. Meanwhile, one hospital alone has recorded 100 Covid-19 deaths. 2/
We asked four major cities for monthly death figures for 2019 and 2020. Only one — Mumbai — provided them. 3/
Deaths in Mumbai:
May 2019: 6832
May 2020: 12,963 (of which Covid: 2,269)
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May 2019: 6832
May 2020: 12,963 (of which Covid: 2,269)
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“We’ve been transparent,” said I.S. Chahal, Mumbai’s municipal commissioner. “Let other states of India show this courage.” /5
India needs accurate numbers to bring its outbreak under control, experts say. “The only way to walk out of this pandemic will be better data, and it’s not being collected,” said Prabhat Jha, @countthedead, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto. 6/
