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Disease clusters emerge as new battle front in war against covid-19

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India’s aggressive measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus are facing challenges as clusters of infected people are emerging across the nation with thousands of jobless migrant workers fleeing the cities, often by foot, to escape starvation.

At nearly 1,600 confirmed cases, India appears to be on the cusp of community transmission, or stage 3 of the epidemic, when cases increase exponentially and are no longer restricted to people who have travelled abroad or come in contact with them.

Officials have vehemently denied it, but their worry lines are starting to show. “We are focusing on hotspots from where large number of cases are being reported and working in tune with states to implement rigorous contact tracing, community

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