New York-SANA
Results of medical tests today showed that at least one in five people in New York, the largest city in the United States, is most likely infected with the emerging coronavirus, indicating that the infection rate is much higher than announced.
And the New York State Governor Andrew Como told reporters today that about three thousand people in the state were randomly subjected to "antibody" testing, adding that "the result of 14 percent of them was positive, and in New York City the proportion of those injured was greater, with 21 percent of The tests are positive. ”
This could mean that about 2.6 million people in the state, including 1.7 million people in New York City, caught the virus at some point, much higher than the 263460 reported infections in the state, the epicenter of the disease outbreak in the United States, in which the virus killed more than 15,500 people.
And the presence of antibodies after analyzing a sample of a person's blood means that he has already contracted the virus or that he may have immunity to it, meaning that he is likely to return to work without getting sick again.