He has not tested for coronavirus. Instead he took anti-fever medication for five days. But the fever continued, and soon he had difficulty breathing.
His family asked him for a test, but he refused. His reasoning was that there was no way he could contract Kovid-19 because he had barely left his home in Delhi, and no one with the virus had been found or suspected of having it.
Eight days after the symptoms first appeared, his condition worsened. He was immediately rushed to the hospital, where he tested positive.
I survived but the doctor said that if you had been a little late you would have risked your life
Mr. Kumar could not find the source of his infection and is still not sure how he caught it.
Experts say there are many such cases - evidence that the community transition in India is "fully developed".
But the government refused to accept that community broadcasting had begun, saying there was no clear definition of the term, and that each country could define it based on local conditions.
So far, Kerala and West Bengal are the only two states to admit that they have entered this stage.
But the global understanding on the subject is simple: when the source of the infection cannot be traced in a large number of cases, it is safe to define it as a community transition.
The WHO guidelines say the same thing: "Evidence is found by the inability to relate community transmission confirmation cases through a large number of case transmission chains".
According to Dr. Arvind Kumar, chairman of the Center for Chest Surgery at Sir Gangaram Hospital in Delhi, this is definitely happening in India.
He says more and more patients are coming to hospitals whose source of infection cannot be traced. And, he adds, the growing number of cases supports this.
More than 1.5 million cases have been reported in India and about 29,000 people have died.
“These figures don’t lie,” says Dr Kumar Kumar. The state is growing very fast covid-19 cases There is no point in denying what is right against you."
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