Is Meerut under-reporting Covid deaths?

May 08, 2021 12:59

A scene in Meerut, May 7, 2021

'If the Adityanath government is to be believed, between April 19 and April 30, no more than 36 people died of Covid in Meerut, one of Uttar Pradesh's most populous districts. However, the register maintained by Surajkund crematorium, Meerut's largest, recorded 264 cremations of those who had succumbed to Covid in the same period,' report Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar in Newslaundry.

'The register, accessed by Newslaundry, shows that on April 23, the day the district's chief medical officer reported zero Covid deaths, the crematorium recorded 29 Covid cremations out of 52 cremations in total,' they add, here.

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