Growing numbers: On India’s COVID-19 preparedness

On Monday and Tuesday, India reported three more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases– one each from Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur (an Italian tourist)— bringing the total number to 6. While the first 3 cases, reported from Kerala, were in young adults who had shown up straight from China, the two brand-new cases were Indians who had shown up from Italy and Dubai. Italy and the UAE have actually reported local transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), hence marking all the 5 as imported cases. Detection of the 3 cases is not a surprise thinking about that hundreds of passengers have arrived in India from China and other countries where regional transmission of the infection has actually been going on for the last number of weeks. On Tuesday, the Health Ministry stated that six people in Agra who had actually been available in contact with the COVID-19 index case in Delhi have been “discovered with high viral load” and kept in isolation. Their sam