Over Half of Residents in Mumbai’s Slums Were Exposed to Coronavirus, Survey Finds

NEW DELHI—More than 50 percent of the residents in the densely populated slums of India’s fiscal capital of Mumbai had been exposed to the coronavirus and produced antibodies as of early July, a metropolis-commissioned research has identified, sparking a debate more than whether additional screening is wanted in the metropolis.

Blood tests on virtually seven,000 randomly picked samples from 3 wards of the metropolis with a population of a very little more than 1.five million indicated that 57{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of people today in all those parts had been exposed to the virus and produced antibodies….