With the surveillance reporting score of 0.61, Nagaland has scored highest in the Covid-19 surveillance reporting in India. A recent study conducted by researchers at Stanford University stated that the quality of Covid-19 surveillance data reporting in Nagaland was the best in the country.
“Our recent findings show that the quality of surveillance data reporting in Nagaland is the best in the country. Nagaland scores highest in our metric because of high quality granular data reporting through weekly bulletins,” the researchers said in an email statement to the state’s H&FW department. PhD scholars Abhenaya Gnanaskeran and Varun Vasudevan, who were part of the team led by Prof James Zou from Stanford University, said that H&FW department’s weekly bulletin empowered people to get proactive about their health.