India not in community transmission stage: ICMR on Covid spread
New Delhi/IBNS: Despite the steady rise in Covid-19 cases, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday claimed India, the country of 1.3 billion people with a huge number of them belonging to below-poverty level, was not in the community transmission stage.
ICMR DG Prof. Balram Bhargava told a press briefing here, "India is not in community transmission. We have to continue with our strategy of testing, tracing, tracking, quarantine and containment measures and we should not give up our guard on these."
The ICMR has also claimed India's mortality rate per lakh population is among the lowest in the world.
Health Ministry's joint secretary Lav Agarwal has said the symptomatic or suspected Covid patients should get in touch with the respective states' helpline numbers.
"Symptomatic persons or a suspect case should get in touch with states' helpline numbers and try to access the hospital facilities as advised. In addition to this, we have requested the states to streamline the helpline system and provide guidance," Agarwal said.
Adding almost 10,000 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, India on Thursday witnessed the biggest jump in the number of infections.
With the report of 9,996 new cases, the Covid tally in India has now touched 2,86,579 including 1,41,029 cured and 8,102 deaths.
For the first time on Wednesday since the outbreak of Covid in India in late January, the recovered cases surpassed the active ones which are 1,37,448 on Thursday.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, has reported 94,041 cases including 3,438 deaths.
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