Coronavirus | Over 50% of children in Mumbai exposed to coronavirus
The Hindu
Serosurvey conducted between April and June 2021
The serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children in Mumbai has found that more than 50% of the paediatric population in a health care settings had antibodies to COVID-19. Across 24 wards of Mumbai, total of 2,176 blood samples were collected from pathology laboratories including 1,283 from the Aapli Chikitsa Network and Nair Hospital of BMC, and 893 from a network of two private labs. These blood samples were made available from the samples received in laboratories for various medical tests. This sero-survey was conducted during April 1, 2021 to June 15, 2021. The overall seropositivity among children is 51.18% — 54.36% in samples from public sector hospitals and 47.03% in samples from private labs.
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