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Top 10 Covid updates: States must audit deaths to get data on mortality rate, says AIIMS chief
Here are the updates from Saturday:
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, Director Dr Randeep Guleria said that a “mis-classification” of Covid-19 deaths by hospitals and states can go against India’s efforts to form strategies to fight the pandemic. He called for all hospitals and states to do a death audit to ascertain the causes of mortality and measures to bring down the country’s death rate. “Unless we have clear data, we will not be able to develop a strategy to decrease our mortality,” he said. India reported 84,332 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, taking its overall tally to 2,93,59,155 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. For the fifth consecutive day, the country recorded less than 1 lakh cases. Deaths rose by 4,002 to 3,67,081.The Centre refuted a report that claimed that India’s coronavirus deaths could be “five-to-seven times” more than the official figures. “The unsound analysis of the said article is based on extrapolation of data without any epidemiological evidence,” the government said.Delhi registered 213 new Covid-19 cases, 28 more fatalities, pushing the case count to 14,30,884 and toll to 24,800. This is the lowest single-day jump since March 9. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the possibility of a third wave hitting the Capital…