LCT Providing Impetus to Coronavirus Pandemic in Portions of India
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With large number of cases being found in
particular areas, India has now reached between Stage 2 and 3 of coronavirus
pandemic, the Union Health Ministry has on Monday said.
The ministry also quoted the remarks of
the AIIMS Director - the Localized Community Transmission (LCT) was being
observed in some pockets of the country.
Dr Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Director, who
is also a member of a Task Force on COVID-19, on Monday said that the LCT has
been seen in some pockets and that India is between Stage 2 (local
transmission) and Stage 3. He also clarified that the most of India is
currently at Stage 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked about Guleria’s remarks, Joint
Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said, “What the AIIMS Director
has said is not in variance with what we have been explaining to you.”
Explaining further, Agarwal said that they go for a cluster containment
strategy when limited cases are reported from a particular area while the
government’s action and intervention gets intensified when larger number of
cases are reported.
“We tell you every time that if there
will be a community transmission we will be the first one to tell you so that
everyone gets alert. If we go by the wordings (of AIIMS Director), he said
localised community transmission, which implies larger number of cases are
being found in a particular area,” the official said.
“We are in between Stage 2 and 3 and that
implies that our efforts and actions should be focused on ensuring we do not
shift to stage 3,” the joint secretary said, adding there are clear defined
strategies for containment in areas reporting larger number of cases and the
government was working according to that.
In Stage 2, disease transmission is
limited to those with travel history to affected countries or those in contact
with the infected persons. Community transmission or Stage 3 means a patient
was infected though he had no known contact with another confirmed case of
COVID-19 or travelled from a country affected by the pandemic.
