Experts say insufficient data hindering fight against coronavirus

No info on mortality by age group, and contacts traced

As the cases of coronavirus began to rise in Delhi, the information in the state’s daily health bulletin began to shrink, too, with details of ventilators or intensive care use beginning to disappear from mid-June. The bulletins also stopped providing the age break-up of patients. In fact, on some days in May and June there was no health bulletin at all.
 

Since early May, the Union health ministry began to share Covid numbers only once a day, and since June 11, it has discontinued regular press briefings to give updates on the pandemic and answer critical questions. 

Epidemiologists worry that