Thread by @fascinatorfun

As the dead pile up in Gujarat, the state’s media is on a warpath with the government over Covid-19

The climb in India’s cases is ferocious, and, deaths despite the average age being 35yrs

But take the official death figures with a large pinch of salt.
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In Gujarat State alone they reported 67 Covid deaths on Tuesday, but it turns out they only record those where Covid is the leading cause of death and anyway the figures make no sense.

In Ahmedabad the official state figure for Covid dead on 12 April was 20. But a journalist sat outside the Covid hospital (for 1200 patients!) from midnight to 5pm on 12th and counted 63 bodies being moved from the morgue.

Just one hospital in one town in Gujarat.

And people have been taking videos of the cremations and burials.

The official deaths cannot simply be explained away given they have risen way beyond official figures as Covid has accelerated so fast. The rates are so high the worst is yet to come.

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