Covid | 'Risk higher in urban areas': ICMR reveals sero-survey findings
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Covid | 'Risk higher in urban areas': ICMR reveals sero-survey findings
The Indian Council of Medical Research revealed findings of its survey aimed at gauging the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus in the country.
ICMR Director-General Balram Bhargava said that 0.73% of the population in the selected districts showed evidence of exposure to the virus which causes the Covid-19 illness.
He said that infection fatality rate was very low at 0.08%, but the results showed that a large part of the population was still susceptible.
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