Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said that the serological survey will now be conducted in the national capital every month.
On Tuesday, a serological survey conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control in collaboration with the Delhi Government revealed that 22.86 percent of people have the antibodies for the viral disease, while 77 percent of the population is still susceptible.
Addressing a press conference, Jain said, “Delhi government has decided to conduct serosurvey every month. It will be done from the first day of the month till the 5th of every month.”
The next survey will be conducted on August 1, Jain said, adding that more samples will be taken this time as compared to the last.
For the last exercise, survey teams were formed, blood samples were collected from selected individuals after taking written informed consent, and then their sera were tested for the IgG antibodies.
As many as 21,387 samples were collected during the survey. Out of the 11 districts, eight have seroprevalence of more than 20 percent. In the central, north-east, north, and Shahdara districts, the seroprevalence is 27 percent.
Delhi’s south-west area has 12.95 percent seroprevalence, the least in the city, followed by south and west Delhi at 18.61 percent and 19.13 percent, respectively.
