While we await action to come from the Asian time zone here is an interesting item on getting data on COVID-19 from some countries.
Via, Reuters, citing five U.S. government sources familiar with the intelligence reporting.
- US agencies have limited insight into the full impact of the pandemic in the four countries, known by U.S. spy agencies as “hard targets” because of the heavy state controls on information and the difficulty, even in normal times, of collecting intelligence from within their closed leadership circles.
- An accurate assessment of those countries’ outbreaks would aid U.S. and international efforts to limit the human and economic tolls from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, experts say.
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