As a component of a national survey, the Srinagar Government Medical School presented the time for serological research on Covid-19 in Pulwama District, southern Kashmir. – Photo archive
Tribune Press Service
Srinagar, 29 August
As a component of a national survey, the Srinagar Government Medical School presented the time for serological research for Covid-19 in Pulwama District, southern Kashmir.
The Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) conducts a serological survey, “National Serovigilance to monitor the trend of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: community-based surveillance”, in 60 districts and 10 hotspots in all EU states and territories.
The survey is conducted to see the trend of conversion in the population’s reaction to SARS CoV-2 infection in the months following the first cycle in May.
Mohammad Salim Khan, Head of Community Medicine, GMC, Srinagar and head of the ICMR Serological Survey for Pulwama, said that in the round of this time, knowledge will be collected through the application and blood samples will be taken to evaluate immunoglobulin-gamma. SARS-CoV-2, which would cause an infection in the recent beyond and the body’s immune reaction to SARS CoV-2 infection.
“Each of them collects the knowledge and blood samples of 400 participants, adding young people over 10 years old and an adult population,” he said.
The ICMR carries out the through its regional centres. However, Dr. Balram Bhargava, Director General, ICMR, and Secretary, Department of Health Research, MOHFW, again asked GMC, Srinagar, to perform the in Pulwama on his behalf.
In the first round, seroprevalence in Pulwama was found to be 2%, higher than the national average of 0.73%, while the recent GMC study, Srinagar, in Srinagar showed a prevalence of 3.8% in the general population, almost twice the prevalence in Pulwama. “However, this time, seroprevalence is expected to be higher than in the past,” Khan added.
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