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No community transmission, 170 COVID-19 hotspots in country: Govt

On Tuesday, the government stressed that the chain of transmission of coronavirus can be broken successfully if no case is reported for 28 days from a particular area. This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the morning announced the extension of countrywide lockdown till May 3.

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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated on Wednesday that there is no community transmission of India so far, and declared 170 districts as COVID-19 hotspots.

"No community transmission in India so far, there have been some local outbreaks," the health ministry informed.

 It also informed that the country will be classified into 3 categories - hotspot districts, non-hotspot districts but where cases are being reported and green zone districts in the period of the lockdown.

"The districts of the country will be classified into 3 categories - hotspot districts, non-hotspot districts but where cases are being reported and green zone districts," Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary Ministry of Health stated.

He also informed that the Cabinet Secretary held a video conference with all Chief Secretaries, DGPs, Health Secretaries, Collectors, SPs, Municipal Commissioners & CMOs where hotspots were discussed and filed level implementation of containment strategy was given.

Moreover, ICMR informed that it conducted surveillance based on research from China which found that Coronavirus might have originated due to mutation in bats, and found that there are two types of bats, and they carried coronavirus which was not capable of affecting humans. He further stated that such situations were rare, citing that once in a thousand years it gets transmitted from bats to humans.

"We also conducted surveillance, in which we found that there are two types of bats, and they carried #Coronavirus which was not capable of affecting humans. It's rare, maybe once in 1000 years that it gets transmitted from bats to humans," R Gangakhedkar, Head of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) stated.

"As per research in China, it was found that #Coronavirus might have originated due to mutation in bats. Bats might have transmitted it to pangolins, from pangolins it got transmitted to humans," he added.

On Tuesday, the government stressed that the chain of transmission of coronavirus can be broken successfully if no case is reported for 28 days from a particular area. This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the morning announced the extension of countrywide lockdown till May 3.

The information was given by Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Aggarwal during the daily press brief when he was asked out the 40-day lockdown (post extension).

"We have to break the chain. If no coronavirus COVID-19 case is reported for 28 days from a specific area, we can say we have been to break the chain of transmission," he replied to the question.

He further said that a total of  602 hospitals have been earmarked as dedicated coronavirus facilities and they have a capacity of 1,06,719 beds as well as 12,024 ICU beds that have been reserved for such patients in the country.

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