Watch | COVID-19 Deaths Ten Times More Than India’s Figures: WHO

A World Health Organization (WHO) report released on May 5 said that 4.7 million people died of COVID-19 in India between May and June 2021 – nearly ten times the official toll. This would make India the country with the highest number of pandemic deaths in the world by far – with around a quarter of the global total.

The Indian government, however, puts its death toll for the January 2020-December 2021 period far lower: about 480,000.

In a statement issued after the numbers were published, the Indian government said WHO had released the report “without adequately addressing India’s concerns” over what it called “questionable” methods.

Watch the full report here.