This is roughly a 10-fold jump in numbers from the first ICMR sero-survey conducted across 70 districts in 21 States that sought to estimate the likely number of infected until early May.
Around 7% of India’s adult population may have been exposed to the coronavirus till the last fortnight of August, according to the second national sero-survey by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
This is roughly a 10-fold jump in numbers from the first sero-survey conducted by the Council across 70 districts in 21 States that sought to estimate the likely number of infected until early May. The people tested in the second survey were drawn from the same villages and clusters as the first, in which the scientists said that 0.73% of adults — or about 6.4 million — across the country were likely infected.
Editorial | Banking on serology
No figures were shared on the likely number of…