Coronavirus: No evidence of community spread
Posted on: 27/Mar/2020 9:07:32 AM
The Centre said on Wednesday (25th March) that there is still no evidence of a wider spread of the novel coronavirus through community transmission, on the basis of sampling of ICU cases suffering from severe influenza symptoms.
These patients are outside the testing focus on persons exhibiting symptoms that have travelled abroad or have been in contact with such a person.
Health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said that Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed that “as of now there is no community transmission,”.
The official`s caution underlined the concern that the highly infectious disease has the ability of rapid transmission and the situation needs to be assessed on a daily basis.
