Abstract:Tackling of COVID-19 has been the prime concern for all the countries because of the virus’ deadly tenure across the globe. But an attempt to curb the virus requires an effective analysis of its spread. Falsified data is suspected by experts on account of policy-making, political strategies and fear handling. Benford’s law, which is an effective and widely used technique to detect fraud and fabrication, is employed and applied to data made available publicly, by the authorities, in an attempt to see if the dat… Show more
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