India's COVID-19 deaths estimated to number in millions

The total number of COVID-19 deaths in India could be higher than 4 million, which is 10 times more than the government's official count, according to a U.S. research institute."True deaths are likely to be in the several millions not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India's worst human tragedy since partition and independence," the Center for Global Development said in a report.The center reported India's all-cause excess mortality estimates from three different data sources, including extrapolation of state-level civil registration from seven states, from the pandemic's start t…READ FULL ARTICLE