Hyderabad: There is a high degree of community spread of Covid-19 cases among urban slums in the Old City, fever surveillance conducted by an NGO has found. The surveillance was carried out in slums at Hasan Nagar, Shaheen Nagar, Rajendra Nagar and NS Kunta by the NGO Helping Hand Foundation. Until now, 250 RAT tests have been done at random …
The risk of exposure to the virus in urban slums was twice that of the risk in non-slum urban areas and four times the risk in rural settings, said ICMR DG Balram Bhargava New Delhi: One in 15 individuals aged 10 years and above were estimated to be exposed to SARS-CoV2 by August 2020, showing that a considerable population is …