Half of Mumbai's slum dwellers had coronavirus
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Spreading like wildfire
With India now the third worst affected country, in terms of COVID-19 cases, the virus is well and truly in every corner of the country and Mumbai is one of the worst affected cities, registering just over 1,00,000 cases.
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Dharavi
Originally a worrisome location from the BMC - Mumbai city’s municipal body - the infamous Mumbai slum, Dharavi, was constantly under vigilance and volunteers screened as many people as they could. But, new information could drastically change that assessment.
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Randomised study
A city commissioned study has found that over half of Dharavi has the coronavirus, with most of them being asymptomatic patients, raising serious questions about how much the virus was really contained.
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Number game
With the uptick in Dharavi’s numbers, now there are fresh doubts about India's official case numbers. India is already at 15,31,669 cases - the third worst-hit country after the US and Brazil - and 34,193 deaths.
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Testing times
The study in question conducted blood tests on 6,936 randomly selected people and found that 57 percent of slum-dwellers and 16 percent of non-slum residents had virus antibodies, which means they had contracted the virus at some point.