Parts of London and New York ‘could have coronavirus herd immunity’ as scientists say as little as 10% may need infection
It means around 3.4 million people in the country could have had Covid-19 - far greater than the UK's official tally of 320,286.
Krüger said the fast decline means immunity in a population "was having an effect independent of lockdown measures".Credit: Alamy Live News Carl Bergstrom, an infectious disease expert at the University of Washington in Seattle, told the New York Times: "Mathematically, it's certainly possible to have herd immunity at these very, very low levels."
"That is by taking a representative sample of the population and testing for specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in their blood." The World Health Organization today warned the world is "nowhere near" achieving herd immunity and it is "not a solution we should be looking to".
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