NEW DELHI - Ever since the first case of Covid-19 was detected in the country on Jan 30, India has steadfastly denied community transmission of coronavirus. The term refers to a person-to-person spread of an infection where the source is difficult to trace. India's denial implies it is capable of tracing the source of every coronavirus infection in the country.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - Ever since the first case of Covid-19 was detected in the country on Jan 30, India has steadfastly denied community transmission of coronavirus. The term refers to a person-to-person spread of an infection where the source is difficult to trace. India's denial implies it is capable of tracing the source of every coronavirus infection in the country.
India currently has the fourth-highest number of Covid-19 cases, trailing the US, Brazil and Russia, with at least 440,215 cases and more than 14,011 deaths. On Sunday , it registered its biggest single-day spike of 15,372 cases. He was speaking to discuss findings of India's first sero-survey on the spread of Covid-19 that found a prevalence rate of 0.73 per cent in 83 districts surveyed. A sero-survey is conducted by testing blood serum drawn from a sample of people in a community to detect antibodies.
A study conducted in April by some researchers, including those from ICMR, had even found that 39.2 per cent of the Covid-19 cases analysed in the country did not report any history of contact with a known case or international travel. Delhi's Minister of Health Satyendar Jain, who is recovering from Covid-19, had earlier this month said the source of the disease remains unknown in 50 per cent of the cases in the city but added that it was up to the federal government to declare whether the city had entered the community transmission phase.
He added that tracing every chain of transmission in a country of 1.38 billion people is impossible and recommended a strategy that instead empowers doctors across the country with the knowledge to clinically diagnose Covid-19, based on specific criteria for the disease, followed up by confirmation tests when possible.
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