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India reports significant progress in maternal and child health
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
India has reported significant progress in reducing maternal and child mortality rates, with substantial improvements in key health indicators, outpacing global averages, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health.
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Centre and top experts rejects study claiming 11.9 lakh excess Covid19 dea
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
"The paper that has been published today is looking at COVID-19 mortality and the reduction in life expectancy during the pandemic. What it is trying to look at is excess mortality during the COVID pandemic in the year 2020. Now the first thing to understand is this is not COVID deaths on
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"Erroneous": Health Ministry on media reports highlighting excess mortalit
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent and unexplainable, adding that the study fails to acknowledge India's robust Civil Registration System (CRS), which recorded a substantial increase in dea
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Mandaviya raises concern at global forum over WHO's report on COVID excess
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] [India], May 23 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday raised concerns over the WHO's recent exercise on all-cause excess mortality in India in the 75th session of the World Health Assembly held at the global body's Geneva headquarters.
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BJP questions WHO's methodology of projecting COVID death estimates, says
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday questioned the process of the World Health Organization (WHO) in projecting excess mortality estimates due to COVID, and said that the source of the data must have accuracy while also stating that the health body itself does
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ICMR DG questions WHO's COVID death estimates for India
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): After World Health Organization's (WHO) excess mortality estimates for COVID, the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr Balram Bhargava on Thursday said the country has systemic data pool and it does not need to rely on "modellin
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India objects to WHO using mathematical models for excess COVID mortality
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): India has strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health Organization (WHO) for projecting excess mortality estimates concerning coronavirus and has said that authentic data is available.
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'Speculative, misinformed': Centre dismisses report claiming COVID-19 mort
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): The Government of India on Friday dismissed a recently published article in a "reputed international journal" that provided estimates of all-cause excess mortality for a number of countries based on a mathematical modelling exercise and said that the report
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