Excerpts:One characteristic of the second surge has been a clear gap between the official Covid death toll and those laid to rest as per Covid protocol. So you have to look at counting the dead separately for urban and rural India. People don’t test in villages out of fear or stigma, so how do you evolve a system to count the rural Covid dead? Why is death data so crucial? The second is for the Registrar General to restart the survey and find out the rural deaths through the Sample Registration System.

Source: Indian Express May 24, 2021 22:41 UTC