WHO estimates death toll from Covid-19 in India at 4 million

India is challenging the methodology of a forthcoming study by the World Health Organization (WHO).

This draws up a new assessment of the victims of Covid-19 in the world and revises the number of deaths in this country to at least four million.

Official Indian figures show 520,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the third highest death toll in the world, behind the United States and Brazil.

According to the

, New Delhi last week blocked the publication of a WHO study for several months, according to which this figure would be eight times higher.

Other studies already contested

Responding to the

, India's health ministry argues that WHO's mathematical modeling was "questionable" and "statistically unproven", in a statement released over the weekend.

According to the ministry, India has raised its doubts through several official communications and meetings since November.

“A satisfactory response has not yet been received from WHO,” he added.

The WHO study matches similar calculations published by the journal

last month and a study published in February in the journal

that suggested at least 3.2 million Covid deaths in India.

Indian authorities had previously challenged the methodology of the

and

studies .

The country remains haunted by the terrible wave of Covid-19 in the spring of 2021. At the height of the pandemic, in May, India recorded more than 400,000 new contaminations and some 4,000 deaths per day.

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