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Compensation claims for Covid-19 deaths in India exceed official fatality count
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People getting tested for Covid-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, on Jan 25, 2022.
PHOTO: AFP
KOCHI (Kerala) - Crematoriums overflowing with bodies, corpses buried along the banks of the Ganges - these were tell-tale signs of Covid-19 mortality far exceeding Indian government estimates during the devastating second wave last year.
India now has another indication of why its fatality count is off the mark.
