COVID-19: New study estimates 6% of United Kingdom has coronavirus antibodies

Amid  COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study has estimated that about 6 percent of United Kingdom's population may have h vel coronavirus infection at one point.

According to reports, a new study on home antibody testing has revealed that as many as 3.4 million people in UK have h vel coronavirus, with virus being more common among mirity ethnic communities such as black, Asian and etc.

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100 thousand participants

According to reports, in large home testing study, dubbed as React-2, 100,000 people were tested from across 314 local authorities in UK. With its large sample size of 100 thousand people, study has provided researchers with invaluable data which can prove helpful when chalking guideline to ease lockdown restrictions as well as in preparing for a possible second wave of virus.

As per reports, 3.4 million cases of COVID-19 infection as estimated in study is significantly higher than coronavirus tally indicted by John Hopkins resource centre that states UK has 315,546 positive cases as of August 13.

study has furr shown a clear disparity in rate of acquiring infection among different ethnicities. As per study, infection rates appear to be at 17 percent for Black community in UK but only at 5 percent for people of White ethnicity.

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coronavirus pandemic which saw its first outbreak in a wet market in Wuhan, China last year has w spre all across  world.  virus, named COVID-19 by World Health Organisation, has infected over 20 million people worldwide with global death toll reaching 751,033.

As per John Hopkins coronavirus resource centre, United States has reported a total of at least 5,223,131 positive virus cases and has a death toll of 166,483. US currently has highest number of reported cases in world, making it epicentre of dely virus.

(Im Credit AP)

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