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India is challenging the methodology of a still unpublished study by the World Health Organization, which provides new data on the number of victims of COVID-19 in the world and the number of deaths in India is changing to 4 million, AFP reported.

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The official figures of the Indian government are for 520,000 victims of the pandemic in India, which puts it in third place in the world on this indicator after the United States and Brazil.

The New York Times reported last week that Delhi had blocked the publication of a WHO study for several months, which found that the number of deaths from coronavirus infection was eight times higher than reported by India.

In response to the article, the Indian Ministry of Health said over the weekend that the mathematical model used by the WHO was "controversial" and "statistically unproven".

India has expressed doubts several times since November.

"So far, no satisfactory response has been received from the WHO," the ministry added.

The WHO study is in line with similar calculations published by The Lancet last month and Science in February.

According to them, the number of victims of COVID-19 in India is at least 3.2 million.

WHO: More than 500 million people have been infected with kovid since the end of 2019.

Indian authorities have already challenged the methodology of these studies, AFP notes.

The country still remembers the terrible wave of COVID-19 that it faced in the spring of 2021.

At the height of the pandemic in May, India registered more than 400,000 new cases and killed about 4,000 a day.

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