The World Health Organization challenges Pakistan’s COVID death toll.
The World Health Organization (WHO) questioned Pakistan’s COVID-19 death toll, revealing the country’s massive undercounting of victims.
According to a recent WHO analysis, nearly three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 over the world than official statistics indicates.
According to the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 pandemic killed over 15 million people globally in 2020 and 2021, nearly three times the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease. Meanwhile, the figure in Pakistan was eight times higher.
“From January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021, the total death toll related directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic was about 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 14.9 million).”
Dr. Faisal Sultan, a former special assistant to the then-prime minister on health, said the WHO statistics on coronavirus deaths in Pakistan was “not accurate.”
Dr. Sultan supported the government’s mortality figures, claiming that analyses of the number of graveyard burials in key towns revealed no huge numbers of uncounted pandemic deaths.
He added in a statement: “I need to study the WHO report in depth. We looked up the amount of coronavirus deaths in the cemetery records. We also ran this information via our own system.”
The data are very sensitive because they reflect how governments throughout the world handled the crisis, with some countries, including India, already opposing them.
