A news in the Swiss press states that one in twenty people living in Geneva is infected.
The number of infections detected in the study is five times higher than the 4700 confirmed cases, according to canton officials.
Official figures indicate that around 28,000 people carry the virus throughout the country, but this number seems to be quite high in the research that led to speculation.
200 PERSONS PER CAPACITY
Researchers are trying to find out if people have survived the virus before, and they have an infrastructure to test 200 people per hour.
As a result of the research that started on April 6 and will continue until the end of May, scientists aim to obtain reliable data on the level of virus spread among humans, the death rate due to the virus and herd immunity.
The suspicion of the number of official infections in some countries triggered research on the potential for the disease to spread. Recent studies have shown that the number of infections in China, where the virus originated, was four times higher than reported.
