An NGO based in Hyderabad, which is conducting fever surveillance in slums, indicated COVID community spread. However, the number of tests done by them till Thursday were less.
Helping Hand Foundation staff conducted 250 Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) on people with symptoms in 10 low-income localities and confirmed the test positivity rate to be around 13%-17%.
The NGO members, who organise basti clinics, took up fever surveillance at Hassan Nagar, Shaheen Nagar, Rajendra Nagar, and NS Kunta.