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Delhi government fudges COVID-19 data, reports fewer deaths

An analysis of the COVID-19 data put out by the Delhi government reveals that the state has been hiding the number of deaths due to #COVID in the National Capital

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Since May 2, 2020, the Delhi government has insisted that the number of deaths have remained at 65.

But since then 20 more persons have died of Covid-19 at Lok Nayak Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital together.

A scrutiny of the data from Lok Nayak Hospital, a dedicated COVID-19 facility in Delhi shows that on May 4, six patients died, on May 5, six patients died and on May 6, the tally was five. On May 3, no one died at LN Hospital.

What is disconcerting is that the health bulletin released by the Delhi government on May 6 states that at LN Hospital only five COVID-19 deaths have occurred totally.

“I don’t know what the Delhi bulletin is reporting. At our hospital there have been 47 COVID-19 deaths so far. I don’t know why they are showing less, you’ll have to check that with the Delhi government,”

said Dr J C Passey, Medical Director, LN Hospital

At Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, two COVID-19 positive patients with co-morbidities died on May 3, May 4. A patient was also suffering from hypertension and diabetes. On May 5, a patient who was brought dead to the hospital also tested positive.

According to sources at Max Hospital, at least 20 patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 have died in April and May.

The Delhi government’s health bulletin, however, states that only four COVID-19 deaths have occurred at Max Hospitals.

The Delhi government has also stopped releasing the number of pending tests each day. In Delhi, 26 labs, 13 government and 13 private labs have been authorised to conduct COVID-19 tests.

Till April 29, the government would release the details of the number of tests pending at both government and private labs and the number of samples processed in the last 24 hours.

National Herald made several calls to the state health minister Satyendar Jain, who did not answer any calls. Shaleen Mitra, OSD to Jain, said he was not authorised to answer any media queries.

Awesome! Na? Looks like Amittu Malu trained given them an in house training