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More about that study in India:

The Gust and Mid-September blood test was collected from just over 29,000 people in 21 states or territories.

The new figures are a sharp jump from the first results of the CIRO-Survey, which ICMRA said showed that about 0.73 per cent of adults in India – about six million people – were infected by May.

However, scientists warn that antibody tests should be taken with caution, as they also come in contact with other coronaviruses, not only causing Covid-11, a disease that has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since it emerged late last year. . .

India – one of the world’s weakest-funded healthcare systems – has gradually lifted the stringent lockdown imposed in late March to revive its economy, which has been plagued by a steady rise in infections.

Citing a nationwide study of measuring antibodies, the country’s main epidemiological agency said on Tuesday that more than a million people in India – 10 times more than the official figure – could contract the novel coronavirus.

India, home to 1.3 billion people, is the second most infected country in the world, with more than 1.1 million cases behind the United States, according to official data.

According to a recent serological survey, the actual figure could be higher than this – a blood test for certain antibodies to estimate the proportion of the population in the blood that has fought the virus, according to AFP reports.

“The main conclusion of this sero-survey is that one in 15 people over the age of 10 has contracted SARS-Co-2 by August,” said Balram Bhargava, director general of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), at the health ministry. Press conference.

Bhargava said there was more evidence of exposure to the virus in urban slums (1.6%%) and non-slum urban areas (.2.5%) than in rural areas, where 4.4% of those surveyed had antibodies.

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Citing a nationwide study of measuring antibodies, the country’s leading epidemiological agency said more than 600 million people in India could contract Kovid-19. The study found that the number of Indians suffering from the disease could be 10 times higher than the official figure of 1.1 million.

Meanwhile, 7,143 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in the UK on Tuesday, the highest single figure ever and the highest death toll since July was 71, according to the government’s dashboard.

• Disney will lay off about 28,000 employees in its theme parks department, The company said its resorts struggle with limited presence amid coronavirus epidemics. Disney has reopened all of its parks except Disneyland, California. About two-thirds of the scattered employees are part-time workers, the company said in a statement.
• The World Bank has announced plans for a bn 12bn (3 9.3bn) initiative that would allow poor countries to purchase the Covid-19 vaccine. With the availability of effective drugs to treat 2 billion people. In an effort to ensure that low-income countries are not stabilized by rich nations, the organization is calling on shareholders in its major rich nations to return a plan that would disburse cash over the next 12 to 18 months.
• Global coronavirus death toll passes 10 million. Relying on official government data, researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the world has suffered more than a million deaths in just nine months since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China. The current total is: 1,003,337. True tolls are likely to be higher due to time periods, different test rates and definitions (for example, what constitutes coronavirus-related deaths) and underreporting in some countries.
• The director general of the World Health Organization called the one million deaths a “difficult moment for the world.” Dr Tedros brebreyes urged the country to “meet national borders” to fight the virus, saying it was never too late to control the disease.
• Its chancellor, Angela Merkel, said Germany could lead to about 20,000 new infections a day if immediate action is not taken. Merkel said she wanted to avoid another nationwide lockdown “at any cost” but that action was needed on a state-by-state basis. Restrictions include the number of people attending parties and family gatherings in areas most affected by the coronavirus.
• The Netherlands is in the grip of another rapidly growing wave of coronaviruses. The country recorded 0,011 new cases on Tuesday, a daily record, as it introduced new measures to combat the resurgence of the infection.