Mahua Moitra Targets PM Modi Over Covid Deaths In India

Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra on Sunday said that India’s official Covid death tally is 5.2 lakhs, whereas WHO’s estimate is 8 times this figure. She targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a report by The New York Times which claims that the Indian government was stalling the efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to publish its estimate on excess Covid deaths.

“Lying and stalling data publication doesn’t make truth go away. India official Covid death is 5.2 lakhs- WHO estimate is 8 times this figure. Let’s face facts & learn from them. 56 inches can’t mask 56 lakhs,” Mahua Moitra tweeted.

Meanwhile, Union Health Ministry on Saturday gave a statement regarding ‘The New York Times’ article and said India has been in regular and in-depth technical exchange with WHO on the issue. India’s basic objection has not been with the result (whatever they might have been) but rather the methodology adopted for the same.