Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

WHO’s Methodology For Estimating Covid-19 Deaths Unscientific: Govt

Jul 22, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

As on July 16, 2022, as reported by states and UTs, 5,25,660 deaths due to Covid-19 have been reported in the country. According to the WHO, however, this number is 47 lakh

The mathematical modeling approach adopted by the WHO to project excess mortality estimates related to Covid-19 suffers from erroneous assumptions and is unscientific and India had registered its strong objection to this methodology, the government informed Parliament earlier this week.

India had objected to the ‘one size fits all’ approach adopted by the WHO as it might be true for smaller countries but cannot be applied to a huge and diverse country like India, which had varied case trajectory across multiple states and at different periods during the pandemic, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply.

She was responding to a question on the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that the number of people who died of Covid-19 in India is 47 lakh. As on July 16, 2022, as reported by states and UTs, 5,25,660 deaths due to Covid-19 have been reported in the country, the reply said, quoting India’s official data.

The WHO, based on a mathematical modeling exercise, has, however, projected an estimate of about 47 lakh excess deaths in India associated directly or indirectly with the Covid-19 pandemic, between January 1 2020 and December 31, 2021. This is primarily an estimate of deaths due to all causes, which includes deaths due to Covid-19 as well.

“The mathematical modeling-based approach by WHO suffered from a number of inconsistencies and erroneous assumptions. India had highlighted against the classification of certain countries under tier-1 while they had displayed data inconsistencies in reporting and placing India under tier 2 while India has followed a robust system of data reporting,” Pawar said in the written reply.

The minister stated that WHO was also asked to explain the unscientific approach wherein their projections were based on data from only 17 states and UTs obtained from websites/RTIs taken at varied periods of time and extrapolated to the entire country.

“The study did not account for varied Covid-19 test positivity rates across the states and at different periods of time, besides the implications of using different diagnostic methods (RAT/RT-PCR) in different countries,” she said.

According to the WHO’s own admission, their modeling exercise suffered from a number of limitations like limited representation and generalisation of variable utilised to settings that may be systematically different.

“The Central Council of Health and Family Welfare, a representative body of health ministers from all states and UTs of India, constituted under Article 263 of the Constitution of India, has passed a unanimous resolution against the WHO’s approach in this regard and authorised the Union Health Minister to convey their collective disappointment to the WHO,” she said.

“India had registered a strong objection to the process, methodology and outcome of this unscientific modeling approach, especially when India had provided authentic data published through the Civil Registration System by the Registrar General of India to WHO. India’s approach to  Covid-19 management is in line with test-trace-isolate-treat approach, along with Covid-19 vaccination and consistent use of mask, hand hygiene, physical distancing and other preventive measures as advocated by the WHO and other global public health organisations,” Pawar added.

Tags: COVID-19, COVID-19 deaths, Pratirodh, WHO, World Health Organisation

Continue Reading

Previous Can Strategic Green Spaces Cool Cities?
Next The Spectre Of Climate Change And Its Denial

More Stories

  • Featured

Kerala College Students Break Taboo Around Sex Education

4 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Earth Likely To Cross 1.5-Degree Warming In Next Decade: AI Study

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Covid-19 Remains ‘Global Health Emergency’, Says WHO

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Kerala College Students Break Taboo Around Sex Education
  • Earth Likely To Cross 1.5-Degree Warming In Next Decade: AI Study
  • Covid-19 Remains ‘Global Health Emergency’, Says WHO
  • Working With Natural Materials To Add To The Sustainable Energy Mix
  • Gandhi’s Image Is Under Scrutiny 75 Years After His Assassination
  • Of India’s Online Schooling Emergency And The Lessons Unlearned
  • Opinion: India Raises The Heat On The Indus Waters Treaty
  • Hundreds Join Wangchuk On Final Day Of His Hunger Strike
  • ‘Fraud Cannot Be Obfuscated By Nationalism’
  • Doomsday Clock Is At 90 Secs To Midnight
  • Human Activity Degraded Over 3rd Of Amazon Forest: Study
  • Kashmir’s Nourishing Karewas Crumble Under Infrastructure Burden
  • Sprawling Kolkata Faced With A Tall Order For A Sustainable Future
  • Indian Economy Yet To Revive From Effects Of Pandemic: CPI (M)
  • New Pipelines Will Fragment Assam’s Protected Forests: Environmentalists
  • The Role Of Urban Foraging In Building Climate-Resilient Food Systems
  • Now, A ‘Private’ Sainik School Linked To RSS?
  • About 3,000 Tech Employees Being Fired A Day On Average In Jan
  • War Veteran Doctor, ‘Rasna’ Creator Are Among Padma Awardees
  • Black Days Ahead If Coal City Doesn’t Change

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

Kerala College Students Break Taboo Around Sex Education

4 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Earth Likely To Cross 1.5-Degree Warming In Next Decade: AI Study

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Covid-19 Remains ‘Global Health Emergency’, Says WHO

10 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Working With Natural Materials To Add To The Sustainable Energy Mix

24 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Gandhi’s Image Is Under Scrutiny 75 Years After His Assassination

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Kerala College Students Break Taboo Around Sex Education
  • Earth Likely To Cross 1.5-Degree Warming In Next Decade: AI Study
  • Covid-19 Remains ‘Global Health Emergency’, Says WHO
  • Working With Natural Materials To Add To The Sustainable Energy Mix
  • Gandhi’s Image Is Under Scrutiny 75 Years After His Assassination
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.