Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written a letter to Chief Secretary of West Bengal after receiving feedback from two Inter Ministerial Central Teams, IMCTs which visited the state. Mr Bhalla in the letter said, COVID-19 in West Bengal characterised by very low rate of testing and very high rate of mortality at 13.2 per cent. He said, Mortality rate due to COVID-19 in West Bengal by far the highest for any state. Home Secretary said, it is reflection of poor surveillance, detection and testing in the state. He said, there is also need to increase random testing in crowded clusters.
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