a term typically used when a clearcut contact tracing cannot be established for a large number of confirmed cases of infectionfor india the transmission classification used by the who is cluster of cases which it describes as a stage where a country experiences cases clustered in time geographic location andor by common exposuresat a press briefing on the covid19 situation in the country the government officials said india is definitely not in the community transmission stage of covid19 spreadciting results from the countrys first serosurvey on the covid19 spread indian council of medical research icmr director general balram bhargava said the lockdown and various containment measures were successful in preventing a rapid rise in infections but a large proportion of the population still remains susceptiblehe also said that the people living in urban areas face higher risks than those in the rural parts of the country while the risk is even higher for those in the urban slumsthe survey also found a high infection rate within the containment zones but the fatality rate was found to be very low overall at just 008 per centsince a large proportion of the population is susceptible and infection can spread nonpharmacological interventions such as physical distancing use of face mask or cover hand hygiene cough etiquette must be followed strictly bhargava saidurban slums are highly vulnerable for spread of the infection and local lockdown measures therefore need to continue he saidthe elderly people children below 10 years of age people with chronic morbidities and pregnant women also fall in the highrisk category he saidin the meantime several states stepped up their efforts to contain the spread and to enhance their healthcare infrastructure though many experts have also warned against extending the lockdown curbs due to their high economic costs and a worsening job market scenarioa survey by the indian society of labour economics showed that job loss is the most severe immediate impact of covid19 crisis while lower economic growth and rise in inequality would be the longterm effectsuttar pradesh delhi and telangana have asked for indian railways isolation coaches the first such covid19 care centre has been deployed at shakur basti railway station which consists of 10 coaches with a capacity of 160 bedsthe coaches can be used for very mild cases that can be clinically assigned to the coronavirus care centres according to guidelines issued by the health ministryin maharashtra chief minister uddhav thackeray said that the state government has succeeded in setting up an adequate number of healthcare facilities for treatment of covid19 patients in a short spanthe state saw the tally of covid19 cases in mumbais slum colony of dharavi nearing the 2000 mark with the addition of 20 new cases the death toll from the area also rose to 75mumbais covid19 tally rose by 1540 to reach 53985 while its death toll rose by 97 to 1952 overall maharashtra recorded 3607 new cases to take its tally to 97648 while its death toll rose to 3590 with 152