Amid witnessing the sharpest rise in the number of affected cases due to Coronavirus, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has asserted the people that the nation hasn't reported with the grounds of the community spread and appealed the public not to get caught up with panic.

While addressing the nation on Friday, Joint Secretary of Health Ministry Lav Agarwal has put out the assertion by stating that no community transmission has happened in the country so far. His response has come to the question raised on the study carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in which the council has highlighted that 40 of 104 people had Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and later tested positive for Coronavirus.

These 40 positive cases neither have any recent international travel history nor come to direct contact with the already affected patients. By maintaining that the country has no community spread, Aggarwal further stated that the ministry would reveal if there are any such developments as the people have to be alerted on the community spread. He added that the council has collected the samples of most of the 104 positive cases from the ministry's Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) in the locations that have reported with the positive cases.

According to the reports, the ICMR has put out the findings after carrying out random coronavirus tests on 5,911 people who are suffering from SARI in 52 districts in 20 states and union territories across the country between February 15 and April 2. Of these people, 104 had contracted with the virus and out of 104, 40 people have identified with no travel history and no contact history with any positive case of the human to human transmitting virus.

Through the study, the council has also revealed that the chances of the SARI affected patient getting affected by Coronavirus had increased within a month. It stood at zero percent before March 14th and it has raised to 2.6 percent by April 2nd. On Friday, India has reported 40 deaths and over 900 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry. As of Saturday morning, India has reported 7,447 cases that were tested positive for the virus so far of which 643 people have recovered and discharged while 239 people have succumbed to the virus.