While urban areas are having transmission in phases\, Covid-19 poses a bigger threat to ‘silent’ areas

New Delhi: As the Covid-19 pandemic surges in India, the areas that have remained relatively untouched are the most vulnerable to a sweeping spread of the virus and mortality, public health experts told ET.These “silent areas” pose a greater risk when the rest of India is having transmission in phases, they said, pointing to rural India and the smaller states of Manipur, Puducherry, Nagaland and Tripura, which have relatively insignificant