One in every four persons in Telangana has Covid antibodies: Sero survey
As part of the sero survey, the NIN officials collected blood samples of people from the three districts and tested them for the antibodies that are released when one gets infected by Covid-19.
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HYDERABAD: One out of every four persons in Telangna contracted the Covid-19 by the end of December 2020, revealed the third round of sero-surveillance by the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in the three districts of the state - Jangaon, Nalgonda and Kamareddy.
As part of the sero survey, the NIN officials collected blood samples of people from the three districts and tested them for the antibodies that are released when one gets infected by Covid-19.
ICMR-NIN sero-surveillance puts positivity rate of 24% in three districts
Rural parts of Telangana are a long way off attaining any kind of herd immunity for COVID-19 with the third round of the sero-surveillance led by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in three Telangana districts Jangoan, Nalgonda and Kamareddy putting the sero-positivity rate, indicative of the silent, prior exposure to SARS-CoV 2, at 24%.
The survey was conducted in December last year as part of the ICMR-National Sero-survey in 70 districts of 29 states. The first round of sero-survey was done in May last year in the same districts when the sero prevalence was found to be 0.33%, the second round in August showed 12.5% prevalence and the current exercise showed 24.1%.
One in every four persons in Telangana has antibodies against Covid-19 virus, the Indian Council of Medical Research s sero-survey in the state has revealed.The third round of sero-surveillance, led by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) .
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