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CDRs of patients helping to trace COVID-19 contacts in Uttar Pradesh
LUCKNOW : Call Data Records (CDRs), used in crime investigation by police, are being analysed across Uttar Pradesh to trace contacts of COVID-19 patients, officials say.In Kerala, a controversy has erupted over the decision to allow police to access phone call records of COVID-19 patients for effective contact-tracing, with the opposition Congress slamming the Left government, saying it is an "infringement" on the privacy of citizens.Some patients, the officials say, deliberately try to hide their information or share wrong or incomplete information with health officials during treatment, making it difficult to trace their contacts and prevent the chain of virus transmission.Sample this: Ghaziabad has so far detected 6,567 people who have