COVID-19 compared to other diseases in India was 1.3, as against 13 per cent in the US and 17.6 per cent in the UK.He said the government should not neglect fatalities due to other reasons just to control the over one per cent COVID-19 deaths.At the same time, the government should provide more data in the public domain for experts to understand the pandemic situation better, he said.The data should include the nature of new daily cases, as to how many of them are mild, moderate or severe.
The government should also provide data separately on the number of suspected COVID-19 cases and the cases being reported in urban and rural areas, Mavalankar said."The disease will, of course, spread.