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While 100x is unlikely all over the country, it's surely happening in some places at least. In my district of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, the district officials r
by AmIDev 5y ago
While 100x is unlikely all over the country, it's surely happening in some places at least.
In my district of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, the district officials report 30-40 deaths per day, while official numbers stay at 1-3. That means the state is under reporting by 10x to 40x. And this is still counting only those people who,
1. died in hospital after being tested +ve for covid
2. did not have any comorbidity, as then they'd be classified under that comorbidity, however ridiculous it might seem(e.g. person dying of diabetes when infected by covid)
So actual numbers are likely to be much higher, given that all beds were full already last week itself.
Note that this is an opposition ruled state. Situation is even worse in BJP ruled states, where for example,
1. Tests are done only for few hours a day.
2. People are being charged with spreading misinformation for asking for oxygen cylinders on social media.
3. Deaths are being under reported heavily.
4. crematoriums are not accessible to reporters.
- okpatil 5y agoHello, fellow Kolhapuri here. Maybe we can connect.
- jeswin 5y ago> Situation is even worse in BJP ruled states I happen to live in Bangalore (BJP ruled). There's certainly no evidence of 10-40x underreporting of deaths happening here. I don't doubt at all that they're underreported though; but to a smaller extent. Do you have any links?
- AmIDev 5y agoI haven't heard of data fudging in Bangalore from media, so far. Here are some reports about Gujarat[1][2] [1] https://scroll.in/article/992217/as-the-dead-pile-up-in-gujarat-the-states-media-is-on-a-warpath-with-the-government-over-covid-19 https://scroll.in/article/992217/as-the-dead-pile-up-in-guja... [2] https://caravanmagazine.in/health/how-gujarat-is-undercounting-its-covid19-deaths https://caravanmagazine.in/health/how-gujarat-is-undercounti...
- wornohaulus 5y agoscroll, caravan, ndtv and surprisingly agenda driven.. and are extremely biased in their reporting .. just like newslaundry .. especially their villainization of majority is atrocious .. we news better news media which give news, and not agenda driven politicaal biased 'news' .. they are basically republic for the left.. full of $h*t
- sateesh 5y agoDo give credit where it is due, Karnataka state government has been quite transparent in reporting Covid data, and there isn'a a deliberate misreporting or suppressing. There is a even a telegram channel run by the government where Covid updates are provided at regular intervals.
- lenkite 5y agoThere is a known lag in underreporting of infection counts in all Indian states except for a few. This is not being done maliciously - folks are struggling with uploading the infection and death count. About Covid not being listed as cause of death in cremation houses - this is a definite problem in North India. Southern states do not suffer from this social stigma. Cause of death is being properly mentioned here.