TNPSC Thervupettagam

Community Transition

May 26 , 2021 1206 days 853 0
  • According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), since the beginning of the pandemic, India has never marked itself as being in ‘Community Transition (CT)’.
  • Instead, India is opting for the lower, less serious classification called ‘cluster of cases’.
  • Countries such as the United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, France have all labelled themselves as being in ‘community transmission’.
  • Among the 10 countries with the most number of confirmed cases, only Italy and Russia didn’t label themselves as being in ‘CT’.
  • Community Transmission (CT) is a pandemic stage when new cases in the last 14 days can’t be traced to those who have an international travel history, when cases can’t be linked to specific cluster.
  • Four Stages of a Pandemic Transmission are,
    • Imported Transmission,
    • Local Transmission,
    • Community Transmission and
    • Epidemic.

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