Fact check – WHO accepts mistake of putting India in ‘Community Transmission’, now says in ‘Cluster of cases’

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation, already under a lot of fire from the United States and other badly-hit countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, is once again in a spot of bother after placing India in the ‘Community Transmission’ category.

State-run news service Prasar Bharati on Friday reported that the global health watchdog had “officially accepted” its mistake in its Covid-19 ‘Situation Report’ published on April 9 where it showed India to be in the stage of ‘Community Transmission’ of the outbreak.

However, the WHO later corrected its report to place India in the ‘Cluster of cases’ category and not in the ‘Community transmission’ stage.

Later on, when the Prasar Bharati News Services contacted WHO to inquire about the change in status, a WHO spokesperson said to “refer to the corrected version” of the WHO Situation Report.

India on Friday reported a total of 6761 positive Covid-19 cases and 206 casualties due to the disease, a spike of 896 new cases and 37 deaths in just the last 24 hours.

Globally, more than 1.6 million people have been infected by the deadly virus and over 1 lakh people have lost their lives.

What the WHO report says

“The daily situation report will now report the COVID-19 transmission scenario for each country using the definitions published in the updated global surveillance guidance published on 20 March. Transmission scenarios are self-reported by Member States to WHO. The transmission scenarios are: no confirmed cases, sporadic cases, clusters of cases, and community transmission,” the WHO report states.

Interestingly, China, where the outbreak was first reported from in Wuhan, has also been placed in the ‘Cluster of cases’ category though they have over 83,000 confirmed cases and more than 3300 deaths so far.

Countries such as the United States of America, Canada, Brazil and South Africa have been put in the ‘Community Transmission’ stage.

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