Bengal has highest Covid-19 mortality rate in India: IMCT tells Chief Secy

A BSF jawan deployed in the entourage of the IMCT to West Bengal has tested positive for COVID-19, following which over 50 personnel of the force were quarantined

The central government's Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) has said West Bengal has the highest mortality rate in the country at 12.8 per cent. The observation was made by IMCT leader Apoorva Chandra in his letter to state Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, PTI reported. 

"This extremely high mortality rate is a clear indication of low testing, weak surveillance, and tracking," Chandra said in the letter.

A discrepancy has been brought to the fore in the number of Covid-19 cases reported by the state in its medical bulletins and its communication with the Union government, Chandra noted in the letter. 

The team,