NEW DELHI – India is no stranger to political controversies. At least a half-dozen rage in its fractious public life at any time.
But perhaps the most unseemly dispute recently has been the current one over the country’s COVID-19 mortality figures.
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India saw 4.7 million COVID-19 deaths, according a recent estimate by the WHO. That number was nearly 10 times higher than the government claimed. | REUTERS
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