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WHO corrects report, says no community transmission in India

  •   Sat, Apr 11 2020 05:17:51 PM

New Delhi, Apr 11 (IANS): 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.

The Indian government has maintained that community transmission has not yet started in India.

The WHO rectified the mistake in its latest situation report on COVID-19 published on Friday and said that India came under the "cluster of cases" category, not "community transmission" as stated in the earlier report published on Thursday.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday also said that there is no community transmission in India yet and the rate of the infection of novel Coronavirus is low.

Speaking to the media at a conference, Joint secretary of the Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said: "at least 16002 samples were tested on Thursday, of which only 320 people tested positive for COVID-19. Only 2 per cent cases tested positive. Based on the samples collected, we can say that the infection rate is not high although it is dynamic."

The transmission scenarios in the WHO situation report are self-reported by the member states.

The WHO has defined four transmission scenarios for COVID-19 -- no confirmed cases, sporadic cases, clusters of cases, and community transmission – that are being reported.

Community transmission refers to a large outbreak of local transmission.

The total tally of novel coronavirus cases in India reached up to 7,447, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

As per the Ministry data, of the total number, 6,565 are active cases, 239 are dead, one has migrated, while 642 people have been discharged after recovery.
  

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  • VISHUKIRAN FERNANDES, Kalasa

    Sat, Apr 11 2020

    WHO has lost credibility because of the way it is functioning now.

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  • sense_Shetty, Mangalore

    Sat, Apr 11 2020

    WHO has become an irrelevant organisation in the wake of current covid pandemic.
    While it might have done some selective good jobs in the past ..Its credibility is totally at zero now ..
    These international organisations are peddling interests of certain business organisations which is well known ..They are coming out with unscientific stories such as BCG vaccine which is proving to be a boon for India which has lower rate of infections when compared to many of other countries in the western hemisphere.
    We will see a new world order post covid..I am sure of that .. While India might be impacted economically ..but with the current leadership, I see it is a great opportunity to increase internal consumption and supply chain dependence on internal resources and less of imports from outside of the country.

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