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The survey was conducted from April 18 to July 5 in
collaboration with USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The survey was conducted to find out how far Kovid-19 has
spread locally. The IEEDCR released a summary of the survey on Monday.
About one and a half crore people live in the two city
corporation areas of Dhaka. According to the Department of Health, of the
263,000 people who have been infected in the country so far, 67,135 are Dhaka
residents.
However, many people have been left out of the list due to
various reasons including suffering with the test. Again, those who did not
show symptoms in that way did not come under the test.
That is why, through this joint survey of IEDCR and ICDDR,
BIR, the picture of Kovid-19 infection in the country is ‘somewhat understood’,
thinks Dr. Mushtaq Hossain, who has been advising the government on the crisis.
If at least one of the four symptoms of Covid-19 is observed
in a family member on the day of the survey or in the previous seven days, then
that family has been identified as 'symptomatic'.
Families with no symptoms at the time were placed in the
'asymptomatic' category.
The survey was conducted on a total of 3,277 families of the
two city corporations. Out of a total of 211 people in these families, symptoms
of coronavirus were found. RT-PCR tests were performed on 199 of them.
And 435 asymptomatic individuals from ‘symptomatic’ families
were selected for the survey. RT-PCR of 201 of them has been tested.
The survey selected 827 asymptomatic individuals from
asymptomatic families. Among them, 538 people underwent RT-PCR test.
Apart from this, 720 families from six slum areas of
Dhaka were included in the survey.
5 percent of households surveyed had ‘symptoms’; That is,
some of these families had symptoms. And 2 percent of the survey participants
had coronavirus symptoms.
In summary, 53 percent of those with symptoms had a fever, 36
percent had a cold-cough, 17 percent had a sore throat, and 5 percent had
shortness of breath on the day of the test.
Of those tested positive for coronavirus, 13 percent were
over 40 years of age; 12 percent are between 15 and 19 years old and 8 percent
are under 10 years old
Of those infected, 15 percent were hospitalized. A one-month
follow-up revealed the death of only one of them.
While Covid-19 was caught in 9 per cent of the entire
survey, the infection rate among slum dwellers was reported to be 6 per cent.
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