NSW goes six days with no community transmission

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NSW goes six days with no community transmission

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More than 63 million people in India may have contracted COVID-19, about 10 times higher than the official reported figures, according to health authorities.

A national survey of more than 29,000 people across 700 villages and wards found that about one in 15 people above the age of ten had antibodies against the coronavirus, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Antibody tests, also known as serology tests, check for proteins called antibodies in the immune system, which indicate if someone has been exposed to the virus.

Of the country’s 1.3 billion citizens, more than 966 million are aged ten or above, according to the government’s most recent census in 2011.

If one in 15 people of this group have been infected with COVID-19, that’s a total of 63.78 million people.

As of Wednesday, India has reported more than 6.1 million cases and 96,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The survey suggests that for one infection officially reported, there are actually 26 to 32 people infected who slip through the cracks, said Dr Balram Bhargava, director of the medical council said.

This falls in line with what many experts have warned for months — that India’s coronavirus crisis may be much more dire than official figures suggest.

Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, predicted that the country may be undercounting infections by a factor of 50 to 100 meaning the “true” number could be upwards of 100 million.

One simple reason behind the discrepancy is insufficient testing. India has stepped up its testing, almost doubling the amount of tests conducted during the month of August — but it still lags far behind other major countries.

Only about 82 of every 100,000 people in India are being tested per day, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Source: 9News | News Colony

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