New Delhi: The Indian population over the age of six, 67.6 percent has developed antibodies against Covid-19, found the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) The fourth national Serosurvey was carried out between June 14 and July 6, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
Also, 85.2 percent of health workers surveyed had antibodies against Covid-19.
Asked whether the government was planning Covid Serosurvey nationally to determine the prevalence of Coronavirus antibodies in the community, the State Minister of Health Bharati Pravin Pawar, in a written reply, said the four rounds of the Covid-19 National Serosurvey had been carried out by ICMR.
, The fourth round of the survey includes 36,227 individuals to estimate seroprevalence among children aged 6-17 years, adults and health workers.
It was carried out in the same 70 districts from 20 states and the union chosen during the previous three serosurvey.
“Estimated Seroprevalence from the survey has helped track the spread of infection in age groups and geographical locations (such as regencies, rural / urban areas) from time to time and guide their responses.
Serosurvey results are widely disseminated to state and district authorities,” said the pawar in That answer.
On whether the government also asked the state to carry out their own local supervision exercises to assess the prevalence and dissemination of infections, he said many states and cities have carried out serosurveys.
Metropolitan cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad have reported seroprevalence ranging from 17.6 percent and 56 percent at different points of time, minister said.
In other steps taken by the center to stop the spread of Coronavirus in the country, Pawar said health is the subject of the country but the Government of India has provided necessary technical support and also supports countries through logistics and financial support to further strengthen existing health infrastructure , Outlining several initiatives, he said the government, to add hospital facilities to roam the hospital tertiary care under Esik, defense, train, paramilitary forces, steel services and others.
Many large temporary processing facilities were founded by Drdo to manage a surge in Covid-19 cases in this country.
“Because of the concert actions of the central and state government, the capacity of the isolation bed and the capacity of ICU beds which is only 10,180 and 2,168 before the first lock (on March 23, 2020) is being continuous and currently in 18,21,845 isolation beds and 1.22.
035 ICU beds (on July 20, 2021), “said the reply.
Pawar said the production of daily liquid liquid oxygen, which was around 5700 MTs every day in August 2020, has been upgraded to 9,690 Mts on May 13, 2021.
This is done by increasing liquid medical oxygen production in steel mills and in other liquid medical oxygen plants.
The system for monitoring real-time oxygen production in steel plants and the distribution of oxygen to the country and UTS is also applied.
Restrictions are imposed on the use of the oxygen industry.
In addition, a dynamic and transparent framework for the allocation of medical oxygen in consultation with the State and the United States and all stakeholders such as the Ministry, Manufacturers, and liquid oxygen suppliers have been prepared, the minister told Lok Sabha Online Digital Solutions such as the aggregation system of oxygen demand and Digital oxygen tracking system has been developed to ensure the demand for medical oxygen from all medical facilities and to track their transportation, he said.
To avoid wasting medical oxygen, guidelines about the use of rational oxygen were issued on September 25, 2020, and further revised and disseminated to the countries on April 25, 2021, the Minister added