Karnataka delays reporting Covid deaths: Data

BENGALURU: Karnataka, which has over 3,800 Covid-19 fatalities, has been acknowledging deaths very late, in some cases by over a month, giving rise to doubts of under-reporting.
Hours after the TOI took up the matter with health department officials, the daily bulletin issued on Sunday evening just did away with providing the details about the day of admission and death of Covid-19 patients.
A health department official told TOI some cases could be of patients whose samples may have been collected after death and there could have been a delay in testing. Analysis shows most of these patients were not those whose samples had Read More – Source

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