WHY INDIA OPPOSED THESE FINDINGS

India’s objections hinge on four major grounds:

1

India opposed modelling as an approach – which was reserved for tier II countries that India was classified in

2

It objected to WHO using data from 17 states that were ‘obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their model’

3

Govt said that WHO used its own Global Health Estimate 2019 as base for calculation, which ‘itself is an estimate’

4

India said that WHO did not capture variations in test positivity and severity across a country the size of India