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Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicSerological survey

Topic: serological survey

4th sero survey finds 2 of 3 Indians with Covid antibodies, but still avoid crowds, ICMR warns

According to fourth national sero survey, by June this year, India was detecting just 1 in every 30 Covid cases, highest sero positivity found in 45-60 years age group (77.6 per cent).

Children unlikely to be ‘disproportionately’ affected by any future 3rd wave: AIIMS sero survey

At 55.7% and 63.5%, respectively, a mid-term analysis of the AIIMS survey found seroprevalence in children already high and comparable to the adult population.

ICMR to start national sero surveys to assess spread of Covid

The Health Ministry said that states/UTs should also be encouraged to conduct such surveys so that information from all geographies can be collected.

Half of India’s population could have antibodies against Covid, Credit Suisse estimates

According to Neelkanth Mishra, a top official at Credit Suisse, many districts could have herd immunity. However he noted this was just a hypothesis and an actual sero survey should follow.

India reported over 1.5 crore Covid cases since January, yet no sero surveys announced so far

The last sero survey from December 2020 estimated that India was missing infections by a factor of 27. Without a sero survey no such assessment is possible now.

This CSIR sero survey could partly explain why India is in the grip of Covid wave again

CSIR conducted 2 follow-up sero surveys on people found to be seropositive in a nationwide survey last year. The one conducted after 6 months revealed an interesting finding.

Delhi begins sixth round of sero survey, participants’ vaccination history to be taken

Sources said around 28,000 samples will be collected during the exercise. The outcome of the fifth round of sero survey had found Covid antibodies in over 50% of the population.

Kerala sero survey finds 10.76% people with Covid antibodies, police personnel top the list

The survey shows Kerala missed an estimated 27 lakh infections — it managed to detect one in four Covid-19 cases.

India beat Covid ‘doomsday’ prophecies, made ‘monumental strides’ in handling pandemic: ICMR 

ICMR, in its newsletter, lists achievements — from starting a multi-centre trial on plasma therapy to conducting national sero surveys — but says we must remain 'Covid conscious'.

Very young children may have low Covid infection rate, French study in Lancet shows

The study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first to estimate seroprevalence in pre-school settings.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.