Indian Scientists Ask Modi to Release Key Epidemiological Data

A health worker takes a swab at a Covid-19 testing site set up in the Goregaon suburb of Mumbai on April 27.Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

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By Bibhudatta Pradhan and Muneeza Naqvi

April 30, 2021 at 5:24 AM UTC

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Indian scientists and medical researchers are asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow them access to data that could help study, predict, and curb the spread of the coronavirus.

While the Indian Council of Medical Research has granular data on all residents who’ve been tested so far, it restricts access and this database must be opened to outside experts as well, almost 300 scientists from research and teaching institutions requested in an online appeal.