: Coronavirus: Community transmission is happening, need to scale up testing, say health experts #IndiaNEWS Two health experts on Tuesday said they believed that community transmission of Covid-19, the

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Coronavirus: Community transmission is happening, need to scale up testing, say health experts #IndiaNEWS
Two health experts on Tuesday said they believed that community transmission of Covid-19, the communicable disease caused by the novel coronavirus, was happening in India and more patients needed to be tested to ascertain this. Speaking at an event, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a community health expert, said it was likely that community transmission was taking place in India as there were cases of Covid-19 without known contact history. Kang is the executive director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, an autonomous body under the government’s Department of Biotechnology.Kang said the extent of the community transmission is something that is not known yet. She said hospitals admitting large number of cases of severe respiratory infections could not be an indicator since hospitals “always function at [full] capacity�. “So it is difficult to test [for community transmission] until we start to get data from testing patients who are currently admitted with severe respiratory infections,� she added.In the earlier stages of the pandemic, the Indian Council for Medical Research – the nodal health body for testing cases in the country – focused on tracing symptomatic cases with recent travel history abroad and those who came in contact with them. However, last week, as the...Read more

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