The authorities seem confused about the definition: aninews.in/news/national/…
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In some cases we can establish the chain to an int'l traveller. This is not community transmission.
In some cases we can't. This is community transmission.
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By this logic, since every Indian case of Covid-19 came from int'l travel, they could keep claiming "no community transmission" even after 1.3 billion Indians are infected.
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This was a sign they had lost the chain of contacts, and so the response strategy had to change.
[It is another matter that the U.S. squandered this early warning.]
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