India has strongly refuted the World Health Organisation's use of mathematical model to calculate the number of Covid deaths, saying the "figure is totally removed from reality".

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Contending that the country has an "extremely robust" system of births and deaths registration, the Union health ministry, in its rebuttal, called the WHO's system of data collection "

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In a report released Thursday, WHO said between January 2020 and December 2021, there were 4.7 million "excess" Covid deaths in India

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its the maximum number that's 10 times the official figures and almost a third of Covid deaths globally.

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The global figure, according to the report, was 15 million more than double the official figure of 6 million.

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In 2020, India recorded 4,74,806 deaths as excess meaning over and above normal under the Civil Registration System.

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