Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Are Governments COVID Death Figures Accurate

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar May 26, 2021: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi s barbed tweet on a New York Times report on India s Covid numbers drew a furious response from Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today. Without being explicit, the minister spoke of vultures intent on playing politics over Covid deaths. Politics on corpses, INCIndia Style Although vultures are disappearing from trees, it seems their spirit has been absorbed by vultures of the ji trusts, NewYork more than, Delhi. One should learn to play politics on corpses from the vultures of the earth, his tweet read. Numbers don t GOI does, Mr Gandhi had posted this morning, along with an article headlined Just How Big Could India s True Covid Toll Be. Over the last weeks, as thousands of dead bodies flooded the country s crematoriums, floated down the Ganga and were found buried on the riverbank, foreign and Indian media questioned the official figur