Prognosis
Mumbai Raises Virus Death Tally by 38%, Citing Data Filing Delays
An employee wearing a protective mask sprays a customer's hands with sanitizer in Mumbai, India, on June 1.
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Mumbai revised its official death toll from the coronavirus, adding 862 fatalities in India’s epicenter of the outbreak.
In a statement late Tuesday, the local government cited discrepancies in records filed from various counting centers, which mushroomed as the pandemic spread. All of these cases correctly recorded Covid-19 as the cause of death but weren’t integrated into the master database, it said.