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TopicCovid death toll

Topic: Covid death toll

China finally releases Covid data but citizens don’t believe it’s just 60,000 deaths

‘Wolf warrior’ diplomat Zhao Lijian was removed as the foreign ministry spokesperson and moved to the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs.

China ends ‘zero-Covid’ policy, reports no deaths, but viral images, videos tell another tale

Experts accuse the country of under-reporting cases as Twitter sees satellite images and videos from China of crowded crematoriums and bodies being burnt on the streets.

‘In this tragic battle, Greater Shanghai will fall’: A Chinese hospital warns as Covid spreads

The Shanghai Deji Hospital estimates 5.43 million positive Covid cases in the city and 12.5 million will get infected in China's main commercial hub by the end of the year.

In Covid’s first year, India’s total death rate was same 6% as in 2019, govt data shows

Civil Registration System data implies India didn't see sharp spike in the number of deaths registered in 2020 compared to 2019. But no estimate given for level of death registration.

Covid killed one out of every 500 people globally, WHO report shows

The WHO’s new estimate is more than twice the figures from individual governments’ reports showing about 6.2 million Covid deaths.

Behind Modi & Dr Tedros’ smiles in Gujarat, India & WHO are at war over Covid deaths, Covaxin

WHO recently decided to suspend Covaxin procurement, and India has also been openly tussling with global health body over Covid mortality estimates.

40 lakh more Indians died during 2 yrs of Covid than avg, highest in world, says Lancet study

Global deaths due to Covid could be as high as 1.82 crore, about three times the official figures, according to analysis of excess deaths by University of Washington researchers.

India’s Covid fatalities crosses 5 lakh, becomes country with 3rd highest death rate in world

Trailing behind the US and Brazil, the country took 217 days to reach 5 lakh deaths from 4 lakh recorded on July last year, the longest time taken to record 1 lakh fatalities.

India’s Covid death toll 6-7 times higher than officially reported, says IIM-Ahmedabad study

Study by IIM-Ahmedabad & University of Toronto used independent survey of 1.4 lakh individuals, as well as government data, for the study, published in 'Science' Thursday.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.