Breaking! 'Community transmission' suspected in Vijayawada
- IndiaGlitz, [Tuesday,April 21 2020]
As reported by News 18, Vijayawada may be witnessing community transmission of COVID-19 already. About 30 positive cases in the city were of people with no travel history or contact with anyone.
Md Imtiaz, District Collector of Krishna, said, We have about 72 cases in Vijayawada alone as of Monday and for about 30 cases, we were not able to trace the source of where people contracted the virus from.
As much as 90 percent of the positive cases are asymptomatic.
How did they contract the virus? As per the Collector, most of them had gone out for shopping, etc. This is all is known about the 30 confirmed cases suggesting community transmission.