A fifth of Chennai people exposed to COVID-19, says Sero survey

The infection to case ratio is lower compared to some of the published studies (Santa Clara, National survey) – indicating high testing performance.

The field data/sample collection activities happened between 18 and 28 July and the testing of the samples was completed by August 6, the GCC said in an official release adding the mean age of individuals surveyed was 41.1.

The sero survey was conducted in the GCC areas to estimate the proportion of the population exposed to SARS-CoV-2. The study design was a multi-stage cluster sample survey among individuals aged more than 10 years.

Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu today reported 5,928 new COVID cases pushing the tally to 4,33,969, while the death toll stood at 7,418 with 96 more fatalities, according to a health department bulletin.

The active cases stood at 52,379 and in total 3,74,172 people have got cured, with 6,031 recoveries, said the bulletin.

Out of the over 5,900 new infections, the state capital shared 1,084 and the remainder was scattered across Tamil Nadu. The state tally of 4.33 lakh plus positive cases till date includes Chennai’s 1,36,697 infections.

As many as 75,165 samples were put to RT-PCR tests and cumulatively 48,88,312 specimens have been examined.