Khalid Mahmood of Getz Pharma may have created one of the most important stratified random data sets of coronavirus spread by testing all the employees in his factory. So far the company has tested about 1,000 of its 1,650 employees at all levels. The remaining ...>
...will be tested in the next day or two. The results so far show that 7% of the 1000 employees tested so far were infected. But many of them were asymptomatic. Those testing positive have been told to isolate and the company is carrying out an aggressive contact tracing...>
...policy too, moving to test the families as well. This is probably the largest such data set available in Pakistan so far and has required shutting down production for a week, plus will involve retesting negatives again within 5 days.
While I’m not sure if the results can...>
While I’m not sure if the results can...>
...be extrapolated for all of Pak, it is quite likely that they can be taken as a general sample of Karachi.
What this sample implies is that around 1.4m of Karachi’s overall population may already be infected.
What that could mean is for policy makers to ponder over.
What this sample implies is that around 1.4m of Karachi’s overall population may already be infected.
What that could mean is for policy makers to ponder over.
