According to a LocalCircles poll, Delhi-NCR region is seeing its worst case of viral fever and Covid-19, with eight out of ten households afflicted in the past 30 days. Members of the impacted families have experienced symptoms resembling Covid, including fever, runny nose, and fatigue .
Most often, people appear to prefer using home test kits to test whether they have Covid-19 or whether they are experiencing a viral fever. Regardless of the circumstances, both have the risk of spreading to other family members, especially the young ones who live in these household.
The survey received over 11,000 responses from residents of Delhi, Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Noida and Faridabad. Sixty-three per cent of the respondents were men and 37 per cent were women.
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According to the study by LocalCircles, 54 per cent of the respondents said they had at least two members in their family who had one or more symptoms of viral fever such as fever, runny nose, cough, headache, bodyache, among others, in the last 30 days.
Twenty-three per cent of the respondents said they had four or more members in their family who had these symptoms.
Compared to these figures, just 42 per cent of the households had one or more individuals who had symptoms of viral fever during the corresponding time last year. Coronavirus is likely to have led to the surge this year.
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