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Corona : How much risk of interaction in Mumbai

Currently as per official count there are 15000 cases in Mumbai Metropolitan region. In America based on antibody testing they saw they were under counting 10-20 times. As per creator of best COVID model, Infection Fatality Rate of COVID is 1% [1]. Currently there are 510 deaths from COVID in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. So there should be around 51000 cases in Mumbai, a week ago. So assume that currently there are 60000 cases in Mumbai. 15000 are in quarantine. So there would be 45000 undetected cases in Mumbai. Scenario 1 If all these 45000 undetected cases are only in containment zone, then there would be zero risk to people living outside containment zones. Scenario 2 If we assume all 45000 cases are outside containment zone. Then In 2 crore population of Mumbai, 2.25 out of 1000 people are infected but they don't know it. If we take a random person in Mumbai, his chance of being coronavirus free is 99.77%. For two random persons chance of being coronavirus fr...

Coronavirus When it will end

In 2020 coronavirus will be there with us throughout all months. It will torment us till a vaccine is found. Even when a vaccine is available it will take some time to provide all people in the world. People would riot to get the vaccine as there will not be any cure.  Current flu vaccines provide immunity for only around one year. Vaccine for coronavirus will be the same. It will provide immunity for some time then you would have to take vaccine again. Furthermore the vaccine will be not a magic vaccine where if you take vaccine and your chances of contracting coronavirus goes to zero. Even then the vaccine will not work for all segments of population. For old people and for some other segments of population vaccine will not be effective.  Due to memory of 2020, society will change forever. Tourism will not be non existent. People will wear mask everywhere and avoid crowded places. Work from home will be norm and real estate prices will crater. As there will be re...