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Sars Cov-2 may have infected 6.6 lakh Hyderabadis

News | 20/08/2020 12:38 PM | Click to read full article

At least 6.6 lakh people in Hyderabad could have been infected by Sars-Cov-2 with many of them being asymptomatic.

According to a study, Covid-19 infected individuals release virus not only through nasal and oral routes but also through feces. “This provides an opportunity to use sewage/wastewater samples to estimate the spread of the infection in a given locality or area. The SARS-CoV-2 in sewage samples is non-infectious, thus making sewage samples suitable for epidemiological studies.”

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