Under attack over 'under-reporting' COVID-19 deaths, Delhi Health Min says no reason to hide anything

As the Delhi government came under attack over "under-reporting" of coronavirus deaths after hospitals reported a higher figure, Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday asserted that there is no reason to hide anything and not a single case will go unaccounted for in the national capital.

The minister said the hospitals have not sent detailed death reports of patients which have information such reason of death, name, age and other things, and on the basis of which the COVID-19 health bulletin is updated.

He said the health department has asked the hospitals to send the death reports and summaries at the earliest, so that the data can be promptly added to the bulletin
After the discrepancies between the COVID-19 death toll reported by the government and figures from hospitals came to light, Jain on Friday said, If we had to hide data, we wouldn't have released Thursday's number of fresh COVID-19 cases which was the highest single-day spike of 448 cases. We would have said there were only 48 new cases, but we did not."