Islamabad: After India, Pakistan The government also rejected WHO report on the number of covid-19 deaths in the country, questioning the United Nations body’s methodology for collecting data and guessing error in the software used to collate the numbers. India on Friday strongly opposed the use of methodology, wrong sourcing of data, discrepancies in criteria and assumption by WHO in estimating 47 lakh additional deaths due to COVID-19 in the country in 2020 and 2021.
The WHO estimated that Pakistan had 260,000 Covid deaths – eight times the official figure. The official record state of Pakistan accounted for 30,369 Covid deaths with over 1.5 million infections. “We (authorities) are collecting data on Covid deaths manually, there may be a difference of few hundred but it may not be in hundreds of thousands,” Sama News quoted Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel as saying. this is pointless.
He said the government has explained the calculation process to the WHO in a note, dismissing the numbers. He said authorities in Pakistan collected data from hospitals, union councils and cemeteries. He suspected “some error” in the data collection software used by the WHO which is “showing figures in average”.
The WHO estimated that Pakistan had 260,000 Covid deaths – eight times the official figure. The official record state of Pakistan accounted for 30,369 Covid deaths with over 1.5 million infections. “We (authorities) are collecting data on Covid deaths manually, there may be a difference of few hundred but it may not be in hundreds of thousands,” Sama News quoted Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel as saying. this is pointless.
He said the government has explained the calculation process to the WHO in a note, dismissing the numbers. He said authorities in Pakistan collected data from hospitals, union councils and cemeteries. He suspected “some error” in the data collection software used by the WHO which is “showing figures in average”.