NEW DELHI: India's excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official Covid-19 toll, likely making it modern India's worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the South Asian country.
Most experts believe India's official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and misleading.
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