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Covid: India’s research community asks Modi for data on patterns and severity of infections -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph

India on Thursday recorded more than 379,000 new infections and 3,645 deaths, raising the total of active case to more than 3 million

India’s research community on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release data on the patterns and severity of the Covid-19 infections amid concerns that the Centre had withheld information that could guide effective responses to the epidemic.

A group of over 200 scientists and medical researchers, in an online appeal to Modi, cautioned that India’s inability to adequately manage the spread of the infection had resulted largely from its epidemiological data being either not systematically collected or denied to the scientific community.

The researchers have also said the Centre’s Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-reliant India) policy had made the import of scientific equipment and reagents “extremely tedious and time-consuming” and reduced their ability to sequence coronavirus genomes for surveillance.

“Adequate encouragement and support by the government are required for our country to become Atmanirbhar in the future. Such restrictions at this time only serve to impede our ability to deal with Covid-19,” they said, seeking the withdrawal of restrictions.

They have asked for “systematic collection and timely release” of data on testing for better predictions of the spread of the infection, data on clinical outcomes of hospitalised patients to improve treatment strategies, and data on the immune responses to the inoculation campaign in India to validate the vaccines’ efficacy.

“The current situation demands rapid and systematic data collection and release so that data-driven mitigation measures can be implemented,” the researchers said, underlining that India is now one of the “worst-affected countries” by the Covid-19 pandemic.

India on Thursday recorded more than 379,000 new Covid-19 infections and 3,645 deaths, raising the total of active patients to more than 3 million and the total dead to over 200,000.

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