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Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli with teammates during a training session at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: PTI
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Nearly one in five Indians had been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus until December 2020, the third round of the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) serological survey has found. This is roughly a three-fold increase since August 2020 and a 30-fold increase since May 2020, when previous rounds of the survey were conducted.
Sero Survey: India still needs to be alert on COVID-19 Published by GulteDesk February 05, 2021
As the economy gets fully open and the number of new cases of novel corona virus records a steep fall, a sense of complacency is visible in the streets. But the findings of the third serological survey released by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) reveal the fact that India is still vulnerable.
According to the third sero survey conducted during December 2020, 21.5 percent of Indians are already infected by the COVID-19. This means that the virus had already infected nearly 27 crore Indians, while the confirmed cases through testing stood at one crore.