Here’s your guide to frequently used coronavirus-related terms
Current Affairs : At the point when the wellspring of inception of the contamination in a network is obscure, the region is said to be facing community transmission of the disease. India’s first sero-study to screen the pattern of coronavirus contamination transmission found that 0.73 percent of the 26,400 individuals reviewed from around 65 areas were presented to coronavirus. AIIMS previous chief Dr M C Mishra said there is no uncertainty that there has been community transmission in a few pieces of the nation.
Herd Immunity
When a large population gets infected and builds up an immune response with time, it is known to have developed herd immunity. Dr Prasun Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) told ANI, “This pandemic cannot be overcome by thinking that tomorrow we will have herd immunity. Herd immunity has failed in the UK. There is no point in saying that India has developed herd immunity. We have tried to contain the virus through the lockdown.”
Contact tracing
Monitoring close contacts of infected people to prevent further transmission of the disease. The process is bifurcated into three steps: Identification, Listing, and Follow-up. To reduce the case fatality rate, the officials were briefed on measures that include prioritising high-risk and vulnerable segments like elderly people and people with comorbidities while contact-tracing to prevent deaths.
Asymptomatic
Not every Covid-19 infected person shows symptoms such as fever, dry cough or even tiredness, et al, and therefore are identified as asymptomatic. As much as 45 per cent of people infected by the novel coronavirus behind the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic never show symptoms of the disease, according to a review of studies which suggests that the virus may silently damage the bodies of these asymptomatic individuals.Continue Reading
Aditi Mehta 