Indicating that testing for covid-19 should be ramped up in districts reporting high coronavirus cases, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday revealed that 39% positive cases found during the sentinel surveillance, did not have an international travel history or contact with an infected person.

The apex biomedical research agency initiated a severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) surveillance in association with Department of Health Research, National Centre for Disease Control under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in the early phase of the covid-19 outbreak in India from 15 Feb to 2 April 2020.

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United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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