Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday focused the central authorities over a WHO report which claimed that there have been 4.7 million COVID deaths in India, saying “science does not lie, Prime Minister Narendra Modi does”. Gandhi additionally demanded that the federal government ought to help the households which have misplaced family members by giving them the mandated Rs 4 lakh compensation.
The WHO report got here two weeks after the previous Congress president had shared the screenshot of a media report which alleged that India was making an attempt to stall the WHO’s efforts to make international COVID demise rely public.
“Modi ji neither speaks the truth, nor lets others speak. He still lies that no one died due to oxygen shortage!” Gandhi had tweeted in Hindi together with the screenshot of the report.
Despite India’s objections, WHO on Thursday launched a report whereby it acknowledged that there have been 4.7 million COVID deaths in India, which is 10 occasions the official figures and nearly a 3rd of COVID deaths globally. India strongly objected to the usage of mathematical fashions by the WHO for projecting extra mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic in view of the supply of genuine knowledge, saying validity and robustness of the fashions used and methodology of information assortment are questionable.
The Congress has been accusing the Modi authorities of mismanaging the COVID-19 scenario within the nation and undermining the precise demise figures as a result of pandemic. The concern has been on the main focus within the Parliament and in addition the current Assembly polls in a number of states.
(With inputs from PTI)
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