<span style="color: #222222;">Health and Family Welfare Ministry has termed some media reports baseless and misleading wherein under reporting of Covid-19 deaths has been claimed. </span> There have been some media reports alleging a significant undercount of the actual number of people who have died in India due to COVID-19 in the first two waves, claiming that the final toll may be substantially greater crossing the figures of about three million. <br />''<br />'' Health Ministry has said, these reports are not based on facts and are mischievous in nature. It said, India has a very robust system of birth and death reporting and the the whole exercise is carried out under the overall oversight of the Registrar General of India. <br />''<span style="color: #222222;"> Health Ministry said that Government of India has a very comprehensive definition to classify COVID deaths, based on globally acceptable categorisation. It said, all deaths are being independently reported by States and are being compiled centrally.</span><br />