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National community based Sero-survey for Covid-19 to be conducted in 69 districts from 21 states

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    13th May, 2020
  • The national community based Sero-survey for Covid-19 will be conducted in 69 randomly selected districts from 21 states. This household level cross-sectional survey will cover 24 thousand adults from districts categorized on the basis of reported cases of Covid-19.
  • Indian Council of Medical Research in collaboration with Health and Family Welfare Ministry, National Centre for Disease Control is conducting a community based Sero-survey with support from state health department and other key stakeholders including WHO.
  • The objective of this survey is to estimate the prevalence of Covid-19 infection in Indian population. The survey will involve collection of venous blood samples from 400 randomly selected individuals from 10 clusters in each district.
  • Blood samples will be collected for detecting IgG antibodies for ELISA test developed by ICMR-National Institute of Virology.

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