National community based Sero-survey for Covid-19 to be conducted in 69 districts from 21 states
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13th May, 2020
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- 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.