It also said BA.2 lineage, an infectious sub-variant of Omicron, has been found in a substantial fraction in the country.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday admitted that India is in the community transmission stage. However, it is limited only to certain districts and states. The statement has come in the backdrop of West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's admission on Monday that the community transmission of Covid-19 has started in the state.
As COVID-19 cases in the state spike, Karnataka Minister JC Madhuswamy has admitted that there Karnataka is well in the 'community transmission' stage of the coronavirus pandemic. Madhuswamy, who is the Tumakuru district in-charge minister, said that the state authorities are worried about the present situation.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said that community transmission of COVID-19 had begun in the state. According to a health official, a total of 44 cases were detected during the day, taking the COVID-19 count to 1,039 while the number of active cases was 667.
The third and the most lethal stage of coronavirus spread is called the community transmission. It is the time or the phase when coronavirus spike exponentially in a region, area, city, state or a country. The World Health Organisation (WHO) places India in the cluster of cases category and not in the community transmission category. So what does community transmission mean? Let's find out.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has ruled out community transmission of COVID-19. The minister, however, expressed hope that "behavioral changes" brought about by the infection could become the "new normal" for a healthy society after the pandemic abates.
The World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that one of its reports had shown COVID-19 community transmission in India due to an error which has now been fixed.
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