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WHO has released COVID-19 excess death estimates without adequately addressing India’s concerns, says Health Ministry.

The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems during the first two years of the pandemic, more than double the current official death toll of over 6 million. Most of the deaths occurred in Southeast…

The figure is nearly 10 times that of the government’s official count for 2020, 2021; India has countered the estimate, saying the methodology used was not correct

Case in point: India, which reported 481,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021. The World Health Organization found 4.74 million deaths there either directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic.

Most of the excess deaths are concentrated in southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas, the WHO says

Argenx SE's (NASDAQ:ARGX) Phase 3 ADVANCE trial of Vyvgart (efgartigimod alfa-fcab) in adults with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) met its primary endpoint.  The ADVANCE trial enrolled 131 adult patients with chronic and persistent ITP. Patients were heavily pretreated. A higher proportion of patients with chronic ITP receiving VYVGART (17/78; 21.8%) than placebo…

World Health Organization states will consider a resolution against Russia next week after its invasion of Ukraine, including the possible closure of a major regional office in Moscow, a document obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday.

The WHO says many countries undercounted their figures saying only 5.4million deaths were reported - meaning the organization has tallied an additional 9.5million million deaths

That's double the more than 6 million COVID deaths that were officially reported by countries.

The ‘sobering’ figure is more than double the official death toll of six million