{"id":7448,"date":"2020-04-08T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2020-04-08T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:31:47","slug":"clusters-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/clusters-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Clusters of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Amna_Tariq6\/publication\/339503056\/figure\/fig4\/AS:863243035750409@1582824586383\/Cluster-network-of-the-cases-in-Singapore-for-the-COVID-19-global-epidemic-as-of-February.png\" alt=\"Cluster network of the cases in Singapore for the COVID-19 global ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While authorities are trying to ensure that the spread of the disease is minimized through a slew of measures, including lockdown, contact tracing, isolation, and testing, they are striving to identify limited localities where the infection is concentrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News in detail <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The World Health Organization (WHO<\/strong>) does not have a specific definition for cluster transmissions.<\/li>\n<li>A disease cluster is defined as \u201can aggregation of cases in an identifiable subpopulation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The word \u2018cases\u2019 in the definition stands for people with similar symptoms or a medical condition and \u2018subpopulation\u2019 points to those who share or belong to the same space, time, family, workplaces, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Reports show that the novel coronavirus can travel about six feet from a diseased person and cause infection between two and four individuals.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, when people congregate in a place \u2014 typically for worship\/shopping\/commute \u2014 the chance of a disease spread multiplies, resulting in a cluster of cases.<\/li>\n<li>The size of a disease cluster could vary widely from just four cases to as many as 5,000 depending on the place visited by the infected individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science Why in news? While authorities are trying to ensure that the spread of the disease is minimized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7449,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}