Only a handful of cities and districts in India are currently publishing anywhere near the kind of Covid-related data that the Home Ministry wants states to use and consider.
Covid-19 impacts are assessed based on case fatality rate. But how will government effectively respond if one in five deaths in India are not registered in any database?
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
COMMENTS