Community Transmission

July 20, 2020
Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
Category: DPN Topics

Subject: Science and tech

Context:

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is going to make COVID test on patients without any travel history or contact with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for signs of community transmission

Concept:

Community transmission is a stage in disease transmission where those have not been exposed to an infected person or anyone who has a travel history to affected countries, still test positive.
In other words, people are unable to identify where they might have picked up the virus from.