India 'flying blind', needs better data collection to control Covid-19

Officially India's death rate is nearly 20 times lower than the US, even though it has the world's fastest growing epidemic and the third highest number of total cases

Amit Shah, the man leading India’s fight against Covid-19 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top lieutenant, has been among government leaders touting the country’s low death rate as a success story.

In late June, Shah said India had seen much fewer deaths from the virus than the global average and other nations like the U.S., Brazil and the U.K. That showed a “country like India, even when compared to developed countries, has fought this fight very well,” he told New Delhi-based Asian News International in an interview.

Officially India’s death rate is nearly 20 times lower than the U.S., even