How Covid numbers were hushed up

September 21, 2020 12:43

Researchers acting under government orders expunged from a scientific paper the prevalence rates of the new coronavirus infection in containment zones or hotspots in 10 cities, estimated through a nationwide survey, authoritative sources have said.

The head of India's health research agency, Balram Bhargava, had asked the researchers to remove the infection prevalence data from the 10 cities' hotspots they had included in their paper, multiple people familiar with these events have told The Telegraph.

Bhargava, director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and health research department secretary, told the researchers that the council did not have approval to publish the findings from the hotspots, the sources said. Read the report here

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