No central data on deaths during lockdown: Govt

New Delhi, September 16

The government today said it did not have a centrally compiled data on deaths or injuries caused to people while enforcing the nationwide lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.

Informing this through a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home G Kishan Reddy said, “Data pertaining to complaints and cases registered, FIRs regarding harassment, injury, death of individuals in enforcing the Covid-19 lockdown across the country is not maintained centrally.” The minister was responding to a question by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. — TNS