Amid several reports on discrepancies in Delhi’s Covid-19 death toll, three BJP-led municipal corporations on Thursday said that Delhi had over 2,000 deaths, almost double the government’s tally of 1,085. The first reports on the problem with Delhi’s Covid-19 death toll began to appear in early May, when doctors of several designated Covid-19 centres said that the numbers from their hospitals did not match with those of the Delhi government. “Earlier also the Kejriwal government had reported less death when our tally from crematoria and burial sites had shown nearly three times of the official toll. Delhi govt’s audit committee After the revelations by the MCDs of Delhi, the Delhi government said that they have set up a Covid-19 death audit committee that would work impartially to assess the situation. If all of this was added, the death toll stood at 314 as opposed to the 68 that the government mentioned.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2020 11:48 UTC