new delhi travellers from dubai and the uk were primary sources of covid19 importations into india according to an analytical study done by indian institute of technology iit mandiaccording to the research which has been published in the journal of travel medicine covid19 got induced into indian states mainly due to international travelsthe study has also found that infected cases from tamil nadu delhi and andhra pradesh played less role in spreading the disease outside their communities whereas infected people in gujarat rajasthan maharashtra kerala jammu and kashmir and karnataka played a significant role in the local transmission and some of them caused interstate transfer tooread our coronavirus live blog for all the latest news and updateswe tracked the spread of covid19 and its diffusion from the global to national level and identified a few super spreaders who played a central role in the transmission of the disease in india the covid19 spread in phase one was traced using the travelling history of the patients and it was found that most of the transmissions were local sarita azad assistant professor iit mandi told ptithe research team has used the travel history of infected patients from january to april as the primary data source and a social network was created depicting the spread in the early phase of the pandemic the research found that the maximum numbers of connections were established from dubai 144 and the uk 64 she addedcoronavirus outbreak complete coverageazad explained that statistical metrics calculated from the data revealed that dubai and the uk played a crucial role in spreading the disease in indian states and were the primary sources of covid19 importations into indiadubais eigenvector centrality was the highest that made it the most influential node the statistical metrics calculated from the data revealed that dubai and the uk played a crucial role in spreading the disease in indian states and were the primary sources of covid19 importations into indiamore on covid19coronavirus pandemic complete coverageits time to mask up and stay safe join tois maskindia campaignmhas guidelines for home isolationtrust the newspaper for your daily verified newsbased on the modularity class different clusters were shown to form across indian states which demonstrated the formation of a multilayered social network structure a significant increase in confirmed cases was reported in states like tamil nadu delhi and andhra pradesh during the first phase of the nationwide lockdown which spanned from march 25 to april 14 she saidthe modularity class of states such as tamil nadu delhi and andhra pradesh was low hence it is likely that infected cases from these states played less of a role in spreading the disease outside their communities whereas states like gujarat rajasthan maharashtra kerala jammu and kashmir and karnataka played a significant role in the local transmission and some of them caused interstate transfer too she addedazad who conducted the analytical study along with her student sushma devi said when a pandemic like covid19 subsides a good research work serves as a record