New Delhi: Omicron is now in the stage of ‘community transmission’ in India with hospitalization and ICU receipts rise, although most cases of new Covid-19 infections have been light or asymptomatic, according to the Insacog genomic consortium.
“Omicron has become dominant in several metro where new cases increased exponentially,” Insacog (consorting of genomis genomis SARS-COV2 India), together was initiated by the Ministry of Health Union and the Biotechnology Department along with CSIR and ICMR, recorded in it bulletin Weekly on January 10 and released this Sunday.
“The threat level remains unchanged,” he added.
The Ministry of Health has not used the term ‘community transmission’ to describe the spread of Covid-19 infection in India since 2020.
During the second wave supported by the Delta variant, the Center has maintained the situation of the Covid-19 deployment is not the same.
Throughout the country because there are local outbreaks in groups with different patterns in various regions.
According to WHO, ‘community transmission’ is a situation when a larger local transmission outbreak is experienced which can be defined through the assessment of factors including a large number of cases that cannot be linked to the transmission chain, a large number of sentinel lab surveillance cases or positive improves, tests through samples Sentinel (systematic testing routine respiratory samples from established laboratories), and several clusters that are not related in some areas of the country or region or region.