"NYT" Report On Covid Deaths: India Questions WHO Methodology

India has questioned the World Health Organisation's methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities in the country, saying using such mathematical modelling cannot be applied to estimate the death figures for such a vast nation of geographical size and population. A The New York Times article said that an ambitious effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has found that vastly more people died than previously believed - a total of about 15 million by the end of 2021, more than double the official total of six million reported by countries individually. "But the release of the staggering estimate — the result of more than a year of research and analysis by experts around the world and the most comprehensive look at the lethality of the pandemic to date — has been delayed for months because of objections from India, which disputes the calculation of how many of its citizens died and has tried to keep it from becoming public," it further said.