Pharma accused of false accounting, over claimed number of deaths in India, in a WHO report

"The government suspects that pharma companies who were not allowed to enter India's Covid vaccine market might have influenced the WHO's report that India's actual pandemic death count was close to 47 lakh and not the reported 4.8 lakh, officials say.
In a serious charge against the global health watchdog, top sources in the government said that global pharma majors, who were denied entry to the Indian anti-Covid vaccine market, could be behind the report that adopted a 'faulty methodology' to project a higher death toll in India.
The WHO report titled ‘Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 (modelled estimates)’ stated that most of the excess deaths (84%) were concentrated in South-East Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Around 68% of the excess deaths were concentrated in just 10 countries. Middle-income countries accounted for 81% of the 14.9 million excess deaths over 24 months …"