{"id":80729,"date":"2021-02-05T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=80729"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:34:53","slug":"icmr-serological-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-serological-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ICMR Serological Survey&#8221; -One in five Indians have been exposed to coronavirus,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) has released the third round of the Serological Survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Serological Survey: <\/strong>It is conducted to assess the prevalence of a disease in a population. It is done by detecting the presence of specific antibodies that are produced against the virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How was the survey conducted? <\/strong>The survey used an antibody test. The test was designed specifically to check for antibodies produced against the spike protein.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spike Protein<\/strong>: Coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 get their name from the \u201ccorona\u201d or crown shape, created by the protein \u201cspikes\u201d on their surface. These spike proteins bind with human proteins to initiate the process of infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nearly one in five Indians<\/strong> which is around 21.5% had been infected by the coronavirus until December 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urban Slums: <\/strong>The urban slums have reported the highest seroprevalence with 31.7% and was followed by urban non-slums(26.2%). The lowest was in rural areas at 19.1%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Children: <\/strong>The seroprevalence among children aged 10-17 years was around 25.3%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Care Workers: <\/strong>Nearly 26% of doctors and nurses and 25.4% of paramedical staff have coronavirus antibodies. It underlines their higher risk of being exposed to coronavirus infections than the general population.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women vs Men: <\/strong>There were more women (22.7%) as compared to men (20.3%) who were found to have antibodies against the Covid-19 virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/coronavirus-one-in-five-indians-have-been-exposed-to-coronavirus-icmr-survey-finds\/article33751083.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) has released the third round of the Serological Survey. Facts: Serological Survey: It is conducted to assess the prevalence of a disease in a population. It is done by detecting the presence of specific antibodies that are produced against the virus. How was the survey conducted?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-serological-survey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;ICMR Serological Survey&#8221; -One in five Indians have been exposed to coronavirus,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[1289,1456],"class_list":["post-80729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-soc_0","tag-soc_01","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773466,"cached_date":1704784413},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}