New Delhi: India is currently at Stage 2 of the coronavirus pandemic that has hit over 100 countries. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), this means that at present, there is no community transmission of the virus. What does it mean? “We already know that we are in Stage 2. We are not in Stage 3, clearly as of now. The third stage is community transmission, which we hope we shouldn't have,” ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said on Tuesday.
“It would depend on how strongly we close our international borders, in which the government has taken very proactive steps. But we can't say that community transmission won't happen,” he said. Here is an explained on the four stages of an outbreak Stage 1: This is when cases are imported from affected countries. Only those who travelled abroad test positive. Stage 2: When there is local transmission from infected…
