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about 58,000 death certificates the two numbers for the period difference between the increase ambaram said.
issued during the same peri- of 71 days and the numbers they in the number of death certif- The Congress leaders said
od last year. “The increase was have collected from 33 districts icates (65,805) and the official their suspicions are confirmed
an alarming number of about in Gujarat for death certificates COVID-related deaths (4,218) “by the fact that hundreds of
65,000 death certificates. This were 1,23,873 in 2021 versus must be explained. It cannot be unidentified bodies have been
increase cannot be explained as 58,068 in 2020 and nearly tally explained as ‘natural annual in- found floating on the river Gan-
a natural annual increase in the with the numbers mentioned in crease’ or ‘due to other causes’. ga and nearly 2000 unidentified
number of deaths. It can only be the news story. We have a strong suspicion that bodies have been found buried
attributed to a pandemic or any “During the period March the bulk of the increased num- on the sands along Ganga”.
other natural disaster,” Chidam- 1, 2021 to May 10, 2021, the ber of deaths is due to COVID The figures may lie or hide
baram said. government of Gujarat has of- and the state government is reality. But the floating bodies
The Congress leaders said ficially admitted to only 4,218 suppressing the true number of in the river reveal the real horror
they have independently verified COVID-related deaths. The COVID-related deaths,” Chid- of India’s Covid-19 crisis.

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