via RT Headline Image: FILE PHOTO. New Delhi, India. © AFP / Xavier GALIANA The number of Covid-19 deaths in India could be 10 times higher than the government's official count, according to a study, as a US-based think tank warns the situation is "catastrophically worse" than currently reported. While India's official coronavirus death toll at the end of June 2021 was 400,000, examining the scale of the situation within India, researchers have estimated that there were actually between 3-4.7 million more deaths than would otherwise have been expected between January 2020 and June 2021. True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India's worst human tragedy since partition and independence. The report from the nonpartisan Center for Global Development (CGD) research group explored three different data sets to provide a comprehensive picture of the scale of the pandemic in India, getting data-based estimates "for the first time."