{"id":175830,"date":"2021-07-29T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=175830"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T04:14:08","slug":"centre-advises-states-to-conduct-state-specific-sero-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/centre-advises-states-to-conduct-state-specific-sero-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre advises States to conduct State-specific Sero Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Centre advises States to conduct State-specific Sero Surveys in consultation with ICMR to generate district-level data on sero-prevalence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_ltrSubtitle\"><strong>The findings would guide formulation of localized Public Health Responses for COVID19 management<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Union Government has advised all States\/UTs to conduct sero-prevalence surveys in consultation with ICMRto generate district-level data on sero-prevalence which is essential in formulating localized public health response measures. This has been stated in the letter written by the Union Health Secretary to Additional Chief Secretary\/Principal Secretary\/Secretary (Health) of all States.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Health Ministry has referred to the findings of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> round of National Sero-Prevalence Survey done by ICMR and has advised the States to conduct the sero-prevalence studies in their own states\/UTs in consultation with ICMR, so that such studies follow a standardized protocol, and the findings of such studies can then be utilized quickly by the respective State\/UT to guide objective, transparent and evidence-based public health response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>It has been pointed out that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has conducted the recent National Sero-survey in 70 districts of India. The findings of this survey indicate the State-wise sero-prevalence as below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image001SSL3.jpg\" \/>The national sero-survey by ICMR was designed to capture the extent of the spread of Covid infection at the national level. Therefore, the national sero-survey results do not reflect the heterogeneity of sero-prevalence between districts and even between States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre advises States to conduct State-specific Sero Surveys in consultation with ICMR to generate district-level data on sero-prevalence The findings would guide formulation of localized Public Health Responses for COVID19 management The Union Government has advised all States\/UTs to conduct sero-prevalence surveys in consultation with ICMRto generate district-level data on sero-prevalence which is essential in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12377],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}