The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and NCDC (National Centre for Disease Control) are to conduct a sero survey. The survey will help to learn about the prevalence of COVID-19 infection.
What is a Sero Survey?
- A Sero Survey is testing of blood serum of individuals and determine the presence of antibodies against COVID-19.
Significance
- The survey is to be conducted in 10 health facilities initially.
- After validating its success, it will be implemented in other regions of the country.
- The Government of India intends to set up a systematic surveillance system.
- The sero survey will help in framing a mechanism to achieve this.
About the survey
- The survey is to test 200 samples in a week.
- It will focus on pregnant women, out patients, that is, more of low-risk groups.
- The health care professionals will be selected from high-risk population.
- The survey will also collect samples of nasal and throat swabs to run RT-PCR tests.
- Pool Testing is to adopted while testing these collected samples.
Pool Testing
- In Pool Testing, 4 to 5 swabs of the collected samples will be tested for the virus.
- This is done to save time. When, the test run shows positive results, the swabs will be run individually.
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