Data Gaps
20 Months In, Gaps Persist In India's Official Covid-19 Data
Rukmini S
Sept 6, 2021
A year and a half into the pandemic,
and two months before India's only national-level source of disaggregated Covid-19 data ceases operations,
India's official Covid data remain wanting
A team of researchers in a new preprint paper estimate that by early June 2021,
age and gender distribution was available for just one in five reported Covid-19 cases and deaths, and comorbidity distribution for less than one in three reported deaths in India
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They found that MyGov,
the central government platform that currently provides the most Covid-19 data, does not provide granular information such as data stratified by districts, age, gender or comorbidity
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This comes even as covid19india.org, a volunteer-driven crowd-sourced non-governmental effort that is
the only source of disaggregated, historical and downloadable Covid-19 data for India
announced that they would cease operations from October 31, 2021
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