Thread by @GorwayGlobal

If you visit the website of India's Press Information Bureau, @PIB_India, you'd be forgiven for thinking it should be renamed as the Propaganda Wing of the #ModiAdministration. The first thing to pop up is this:

That is a boastful message about India's covid vaccination programme. - the World's largest is the claim. Well it bloody well ought to be the world's largest given that India is almost the MOST populous country (China is a whisker ahead may be, who knows?).

But is it also the world's fastest, as has been claimed elsewhere?
Next, lets look the Press release from @MoHFW_INDIA pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
You'd be forgiven for thinking India is winning the war against #Coronavirus, that the #SecondWave is #fakenews

Should we celebrate the claimed dip in national mortality rate to 1.18% (where is this from and how is it calculated? PuchoMat). How does this sit with the scenes of long waits and crowds at cremation grounds and doubts of data under-reporting?

Acc to the press release, India delivered 3.2 million vaccine shots on Monday. That's about the average over the last 10 days and has to be set against reports of widespread shortages in parts of the country. The time trend chart shows modest and steady progress