Union Health Ministry contests international study that points to 11.9 lakh excess deaths in India in 2020, calls it ‘gross and misleading’ overestimate

The research paper published in the journal Science Advances, also found that the life expectancy in women fell by 3.1 years, while it fell by 2.1 years in men; the Ministry, in a statement however, said there were critical flaws in the methodology of the study