""The deaths are certainly being undercounted because a lot of people who die without getting a Covid test aren't counted as Covid deaths," said Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar at Princeton University. "So it's unclear if India has a lower mortality rate than other countries in the region."
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