Death recount not peculiar to India alone | Economic Times

In June three states — Maharashtra, Bihar and Goa — reported around 8,000 fatalities not recorded earlier, pushing up the death count. However, such late reporting of deaths or cases is not peculiar to India alone-At least 8 states have reported unusually high fatality figures on some days83452066-Even the Covid test number was revised up 7.6 millionRevision after aggregate numbers were reconciled with state data83452080-Reasons for delay in reportingLate reporting of deaths by hospitals and clinicsDelay in updating of data or reconciliationData not reported regularly-Happens elsewhere too 1,500 more deaths reported in US count after adding Indiana backlogLast month Oklahoma & Maryland added backlogged deathsIn April, Oklahoma added many deaths from previous monthsIn Oct, UK reported more than 12K covid infections, including unspecified number of deaths