"Erroneous": Health Ministry on media reports highlighting excess mortality in 2020

The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent and unexplainable, adding that the study fails to acknowledge India's robust Civil Registration System (CRS), which recorded a substantial increase in death registrations (over 99 per cent) in 2020, not solely attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.