Extrapolation sans epidemiological evidence: Govt trashes report on higher Covid deaths

Sunday, 13 June 2021Newsdesk

India Saturday refuted a report which claimed that its Covid deaths could be “five-to-seven times” higher than the official number, saying the assessment is based on extrapolation of data without any epidemiological evidence.

New Delhi, 13 June 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, in a statement, the Union Health Ministry also slammed the publication, without naming it, for the article which claimed “India has suffered perhaps five to seven times ‘excess deaths’ than the official number of Covid-19 fatalities”.The ministry termed the article, published by The Economist, speculative, without any basis and misinformed.“The unsound analysis of the said article is based on the extrapolation of data without any epidemiological evidence,” the ministry said, adding the studies used by the magazine to estimate the mortality are not validated tools for determining the death rate of any country or region.

Source -The Indian Express