Covid-19: Govt says report on stage 3 misleading, denied by official

In an interview the convenor of the task force for Covid-19 hospitals said that the next ten days are crucial to halt the spread of the pandemic

The government on Saturday denied a report which said that the coronavirus panemic is rapidly expanding its footprint in India and may have entered stage three, or community transmission. The denial comes after a report in Quint cited the convenor of the task force for Covid-19 hospitals, Dr Girdhar Gyani as saying, “Yes, we are calling it Stage 3. Officially we may not call it – but it is the beginning of Stage 3."
 

Dr Girdhar, on Saturday, clarified to the ANI, "Luckily, till today, increase in number of cases is purely arithmetic, while in community spread it goes geometrically