As India is approaching the formidable mark of 10,000 COVID-19 deaths, probably by the middle of next week, amid the forbidding opinion of a plethora of health experts on Friday that the country may be undercounting its COVID-19 fatalities owing to the fact that states use widely-varying methods to categorize and list their dead.
Chennai: As India is approaching the formidable mark of 10,000 COVID-19 deaths, probably by the middle of next week, amid the forbidding opinion of a plethora of health experts on Friday that the country may be undercounting its COVID-19 fatalities owing to the fact that states use widely-varying methods to categorize and list their dead.
Under these questionable and grim circumstances, Tamil Nadu reported 30 COVID-19 deaths en masse, a total reflecting person succumbing to the juggernaut viru occurred on various dates, on Saturday, pushing the toll to 397 while the state recorded 1,989 fresh cases, the fourth successive day with positives alarmingly hovering around the 2,000.
A health department bulletin said 18 deaths occurred in government hospitals and 12 in private and 23 people had comorbidities.
The 30 deaths, which occurred on various dates recently, were pieced together in the government report today and this is the highest number of fatalities declared for a single day in Tamil Nadu.
It is to be noted that the state government has ordered a COVID death audit after a senior health official told The Indian Express that "not less than” 200 deaths in Chennai, surmised to be related to the virus, have not found their way to the state's official toll. Sources from the government blame that a procedural lapse resulting from lack of a proper system to link the state capital's registry to the government has led to the monumental mix-up.
