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From Detective to Predictive: How India Plans to Catch Outbreaks Before They Explode
The Daily Guardian
|December 02, 2025
Imagine a screen ina Delhi control room. On a winter morning, a small district in eastern India suddenly flashesamber: unusual clusters of fever, diarrhoea and joint pain are being reported from clinics, labs and even local news reports—days before the nearest hospital starts overflowing.
A screenshot of the deep-dive page. The panel for selection of indicators can be seen on the left. Health Heatmap of India is an open data platform built for bringing together data from diverse sources and facilitating visualization, analysis, and insight building from such data.
That's the future India’s disease detectives say they are building.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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