Gurgaon: The Ministry of Health has prepared a micro plan to carry out sero surveys starting on Wednesday.
Ten urban areas and 15 rural areas have been selected where 40 samples will be collected on the 1st day of the survey.
For the next three days, the Ministry of Health will cover 75 clusters in the city.
“This survey will be able to tell us about the percentage of antibodies formed in people who are fully vaccinated.
It will also show the ratio of antibodies to the recipient with a dose of covishield and covaxin.
We can get ideas about antibodies formed in people who only take one shot.
Surveys.
Sero will also throw light if children have developed antibodies or not because they are not vaccinated.
Also, it will be interesting if people who are vaccinated have developed more antibodies than people who naturally experience antibodies, “said Dr.
Virender Yadav, Chief Medical Officer, Gurgaon.
The Ministry of Health has formed 12 teams to conduct surveys.
Each team will have one medical officer, Lab Technician and an ANM worker.
There will be one supervisor per team.
Sero survey includes testing a group of individuals to monitor trends in the prevalence of infection.
In this survey 40% of samples will be taken from urban areas while 60% will come from rustic belts.
On the first day, samples will be collected from 10 cities and 15 rural areas in the district.
ICMR has recommended the use of the original IGG Elisa test for infectious antibody detection.
IgG antibodies generally begin to appear after two weeks after infection, so individuals have recovered and lasts for several months.
Therefore, the IgG test is not useful for detecting acute infections but shows the episode of SARS-COV-2 infection in the past.
However, IgG antibody detection is useful for understanding the proportion of populations exposed to SARS-COV-2 infection, including individuals without symptoms that have been infected in the past and have recovered.