Number of infected patients higher than official daily count?

13 August 2021 09:07 am Views - 150

• Doctors have said the numbers may be as high as 5,000
• what was being officially reported was between 2,500 to 2,900​
• This has been brought to the attention of the Health Ministry

 By JAMILA HUSAIN

Leading medical workers, in the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic have alleged that there is a discrepancy in the official count of infected patients released to the media. 

  Doctors told Daily Mirror that according to PCR /RAT tests being conducted daily, the present numbers were an estimated 4,000 patients per day but what was being officially reported was between 2,500 to 2,900.  The doctors have said the numbers may hit as high as 5,000 in coming days at the present speed the infection was spreading. 
This has been brought to the attention of the Health Ministry.