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
For every single Covid case reported in India, 30 cases were missed or undetected: ExpertHe, however, clarified that it does not mean this was deliberate but simply reflects the performance of the disease surveillance system and...
31 Jul, 2021, 07.20 PM 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
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
Ask tough questions, learn: Why did the severity of India’s second wave take modellers by surprise?It is natural to ask if our scientific community could have contributed more in prediction and mitigation of this wave. Pertinent questions...
19 May, 2021, 10.44 AM IST
Recurrence of COVID in March could be due to lack of antibodies in seropositive people: CSIR surveyThe CSIR conducted a sero-survey on 10,427 people comprising the staff members of its 40 laboratories, including contractual employees, and...
25 Apr, 2021, 04.34 PM IST
Nat’l study: 45% of those tested in December had antibody. It was 18% in JulyThe findings broadly align with sero-surveys in Delhi and Mumbai, said Sandeep Juneja, a senior professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamen...
13 Apr, 2021, 10.31 AM 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
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
One in 15 people aged 10 and above estimated to be exposed to SARS-CoV2 by Aug: ICMR sero surveyThe second survey further showed that there is a lower infection to case ratio in August compared to May which reflects a substantial incre...
29 Sep, 2020, 10.20 PM IST
Delhi govt plans more monthly sero-surveys, next to be done in August: Satyendar JainThe decision comes after the city government analysed the results of the latest sero-survey which showed that 23 per cent of the people her...
22 Jul, 2020, 02.31 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
Community transmission of COVID-19 on in many parts of India, ICMR survey not reflective of current reality: ExpertsEmphasising that community transmission was on in many parts of the country, the experts asked the government to admit it so that people do...
13 Jun, 2020, 03.16 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh: Samples of 1,700 people taken for ICMR's COVID-19 surveyScientists expressed hope that the results of this survey will provide accurate information about the spread of the epidemic among the popu...
29 May, 2020, 05.59 PM IST