COVID-19 Updates India: India third most affected by virus after United States and Brazil
New Delhi:
More than half of the people living in Mumbai’s slums have had the coronavirus, a serosurveillance study carried out in the city has revealed.
The medical survey of nearly 7,000 people showed that 57% of slum dwellers and 16% of non-slum dwellers had anti-virus antibodies.
Samples were collected from the slum and non-slum population of three municipal wards – R-North, M-West and F-North – during the first half of July.
The study found a high proportion of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection in the city.
Mumbai, where around 40% of the population lives in slums, has reported 110,846 cases of COVID-19 and 6,184 deaths.
With a peak of 47,703 cases in the past 24 hours, the number of COVID-19 cases in India surpassed the 15 lakh mark on Tuesday.
The death toll climbed to 33,425 after 654 deaths reported yesterday.
Maharashtra remains the state most affected by the infection with 3,91,440 positive cases. On Tuesday, the state reported 7,717 new cases of COVID-19, 10,333 exits and 282 deaths. That brought the number of active cases to 1,44,694, cases released to 2,327,777 and the number of deaths to 14,165, the state health department said.
India is the third country most affected by the virus after the United States and Brazil.
