Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Dec 21: The Health Department had conducted a Sero-Surveillance to monitor the trend of COVID-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the month of September and October 2020. According to details obtained by Andaman Sheekha the Sero-surveillance showed that 26 percent of Islanders have already developed antibody for COVID-19.
But experts believe that there is nothing to be very excited about this report as during pandemic, putting guards down may prove disastrous and hence every individual must always follow COVID-19 protocol very strictly.
According to details, Sero-surveillance provides estimates of antibody levels against infectious diseases and is considered the gold standard for measuring population immunity due to past infection or vaccination. It is an important component of disease surveillance and complements notification, hospitalisation, mortality and immunisation coverage data.
It is learnt that Health Department is now planning to conduct second round of Sero-surveillance to monitor the trend of COVID-19 soon, with the help of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences (ANIIMS). More details are awaited.
