novel coronavirus outbreak and the daily spikes in the Covid-19 count, the government today said that India is "not in a community transmission" so far.Speaking at the Union Health Ministry pres conference today, Indian Council of Medical Research DG, Prof (Dr.) Balram Bhargava said, "India is such a large country and prevalence is very low.
India is not in community transmission."The statement came after ICMR informed that 0.73% of population in 83 districts where sero-survey was conducted, had evidence of past exposure to coronavirus infection.Moreover, Dr Bhargava also said that "lockdown measures were successful in keeping it low and preventing rapid spread." The lockdown and the containment measures helped to keep the virus in check,.