With 28,000 samples, 7th Covid serosurvey in Delhi to be largest exercise: JainThe previous survey was conducted a few months ago when Delhi was reeling under the brutal second wave of the pandemic. Jain on Saturday to...
25 Sep, 2021, 05.06 PM IST
Reading serosurvey right: Troubling implications; No antibodies in some vaccinated, big undercounting of infectionsSince everyone who gets infected does not show symptoms, this allows tracking the numerical, temporal and geographic spread of infection. T...
05 Aug, 2021, 10.53 AM IST
Two-third of population surveyed in 11 states have coronavirus antibodies: ICMR serosurveyReferring to the findings, the Health Ministry has advised states and union territories to conduct seroprevalence studies of their own in c...
28 Jul, 2021, 08.19 PM IST
Virus will not mutate "dramatically" in the forthcoming months: Randeep Guleria on Covid 19While a large section of the Indian population is scarred by the havoc caused during the second wave of COVID-19 a few months ago, many exp...
23 Jul, 2021, 06.54 PM IST
67.6 pc population above 6 years found to have Covid antibodies in 4th national serosurvey, Lok Sabha toldAsked whether the government is planning a nationwide Covid serosurvey to determine the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in the communi...
23 Jul, 2021, 03.16 PM IST
Delhi recorded 1,044 mucormycosis cases, 89 deaths till Wednesday: Satyendar JainThe Delhi High Court on Wednesday said if the city government could not ensure that people get both doses of COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin withi...
03 Jun, 2021, 05.14 PM IST
Second Covid-19 wave in Delhi likely to peak within a week: ExpertsDr Jugal Kishore, the head of community medicine at Safdarjung Hospital, said, "The virus spreads from person to person in close proximity....
19 Apr, 2021, 05.19 PM IST
No new Covid-19 deaths 7 states/UTs in 3 weeks, says CentreThe Centre, however, noted that the last national sero-survey findings have shown that over 70 per cent of the population is still suscepti...
09 Feb, 2021, 07.01 PM IST
No new COVID-19 deaths in 7 states/UTs in 3 weeks: GovernmentUnion Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the Centre has advised states and UTs that all frontline workers must be scheduled for vaccinati...
09 Feb, 2021, 06.57 PM IST
Population exposed to Covid could be thrice the tally: ICMRAs per the latest serosurvey findings released on Thursday, over 21 per cent of the population, aged 10 years and above, showed evidence of...
04 Feb, 2021, 11.17 PM IST
21.5% of population showed evidence of past exposure to COVID in latest national serosurvey: GovtPresenting the findings of the survey, ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava said 21.4 per cent of the 28,589 people, aged 18 years and ...
04 Feb, 2021, 08.01 PM IST
Serosurvey suggests around 2 crore people in Karnataka may have got Covid by mid-SeptemberThe survey report that was made public on Wednesday revealed that Bengaluru’s exposure to Covid at 29.8% is slightly higher compared to the...
04 Nov, 2020, 08.22 PM IST
Tamil Nadu allows shops to remain open till 10pm from Thursday; Covid cases remain under 4000Testing, however, remained lower than usual with 80,348 people tested on Wednesday, a drop from the whopping 93,844 people who were tested ...
21 Oct, 2020, 06.59 PM IST
Antibodies seen among 11.8% in Aurangabad district; 4,327 samples were studiedAccording to the report, seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was 11.81%. The highest seroprevalence of 17.42% was seen in the 41-50 years age grou...
27 Aug, 2020, 09.51 AM IST
WHO concerned about India's rising Covid-19 cases and the younger lot catching virusThe WHO also appealed to countries to enforce the basic measures such as washing of hands, wearing a mask, physical distancing and testing ...
05 Aug, 2020, 07.28 PM IST
Make first serosurvey data public: ExpertsThe group of public health experts has now written to the director-general of ICMR to disclose the findings of the survey that was conducte...
10 Jul, 2020, 11.31 PM IST
Over 73.5 lakh samples tested for COVID-19 in India till June 23: ICMRThe apex health research body on Tuesday validated the 1,000th testing laboratory, ramping up the capacity for detection of COVID-19 in the...
24 Jun, 2020, 04.23 PM IST