Nine percent of the population within the jurisdictions of Dhaka's bifurcated city corporations have been infected with COVID-19, a study has found.

The survey, which ran from Apr 18 to Jul 5, was conducted by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research and the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh in collaboration with USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The IEDCR released a summary of the survey on Monday.

The households surveyed were classified as ‘symptomatic’ and ‘asymptomatic’ on the basis of coronavirus tests. If a COVID-19 symptom was identified in a family member on the day of the survey or in the previous seven days, the family would deemed 'symptomatic' and vice versa.

According to the IEDCR, the survey covered 3,277 families.

Six slums, comprising 720 families, were also included in the survey.

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