Tracking Covid 19
Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus? And which are not?
This year has shown us the importance of good robust data - as Covid-19 spread around the world it was vital to track where it was, how many people it was infecting and where it might go next. On More or Less we鈥檝e spent months reporting on data inaccuracies and vacuums, but what makes for good or indeed bad data?
I鈥檝e been speaking to Amy Maxmen, Senior reporter at the scientific journal 鈥楴ature鈥� about which countries are getting data collection right and which aren鈥檛.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Charlotte McDonald
(Medical staff test visitors at a Covid-19 testing station in Seoul, South Korea. Credit: Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images)
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- Sat 28 Nov 2020 18:50GMT麻豆社 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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- Sun 29 Nov 2020 22:50GMT麻豆社 World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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