Coronavirus: What is community transmission?
India’s coronavirus caseload is growing fast — over 1,000 people now have, or have had the virus — but experts from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) say evidence of community transmission is scarce.
But what exactly is that?
Well, it’s got to do with our ability to tell how patients got infected.
At the community transmission stage (the “Stage 3” you keep hearing about), a disease spreads in the population is such a way that people don’t know how they were exposed to the contagion: they haven’t travelled to a part of the world that’s currently battling an outbreak, or haven’t been in contact with someone they know has the coronavirus.
ndia’s coronavirus caseload is growing fast — over 1,000 people now have, or have had the virus — but experts from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) say evidence of community transmission is scarce.
But what exactly is that?
Well, it’s got to do with our ability to tell how patients got infected.
At the community transmission stage (the “Stage 3” you keep hearing about), a disease spreads in the population is such a way that people don’t know how they were exposed to the contagion: they haven’t travelled to a part of the world that’s currently battling an outbreak, or haven’t been in contact with someone they know has the coronavirus.
