Hyderabad sources stated that in the recent study it was found that at least six lakh people in hyderabad have been infected by the novel coronavirus with a large number of them asymptomatic and need no hospitalization. The study conducted by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical technology said that individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 shed virus not only through nasal and oral routes but also through faces.
In a joint effort, CCMB and IICT harvested the sewage samples of different sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city to estimate the number of potentially infected individuals. According to the study, 80 percent of the STPs revealed nearly two lakh people are shedding viral materials and only 40 percent of the sewage reach STPs which may indicate that about six lakh people in the city carried or are carrying the virus. This meant nearly 2 lakh people are shedding viral materials.
"Since only 40 percent of the sewage reach STPs, this data can be used to extrapolate the overall number of potentially infected people, which turned out to be approximately six lakh, that is, around six percent of the population, which includes symptomatic, asymptomatic, and also recently recovered individuals in a time window of about 35 days," the CCMB said, as reported by a news agency. The findings are yet to be peer reviewed.
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