Considerable Population Susceptible To Covid, Shows Sero Survey: Centre

One in every 15 person aged more than 10 years in India had been exposed to Covid-19 by August 2020. This has been revealed in the second national sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical research (ICMR).

Speaking about the finding of this sero-survey, Director General, ICMR Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said it was found that urban slum and urban non-slum areas had higher SARS-CoV2 infection prevalence than that of rural areas.

"Risk in urban slums is twice than that in non-slum areas and four times the risk in rural setting," he said, adding that urban slums had a 15.6 per cent prevalence of SARS-CoV2 while non-slum areas had a prevalence of 8.2 per cent.