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The visit of Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to Gujarat for the Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit ___(1)___ with a simmering dispute between India and WHO on its forthcoming report on ___(2)___ COVID-19 deaths between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the organization had ___(3)___ three million deaths globally from the pandemic, much more than the 1.8 million officially reported by countries. It was ___(4)___ to update this estimate for 2021 by the year-end but could not, as reports suggest, because of ‘stalling’ by India. A report in The New York Times claims that WHO estimates India ___(5)___ for four million deaths, or about eight times the current official toll of 5.2 lakh. The report drew a sharp ___(6)___ from the Centre, with the Health Ministry criticizing WHO’s use of mathematical extrapolation and assumptions that did not capture ground ___(7)___ in India and its reliance on ‘unverified’ data sources. WHO is set to ___(8)___ its estimates for most countries in the near future but the disclosure of India’s displeasure again shines the light on a long-standing ___(9)___ with independent estimates of the death toll. A high death toll ___(10)___ India’s official discourse that it has performed better than several western countries with better-developed health infrastructure.