Agencies
New Delhi: The top 10 hotspot cities
reporting the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country will be covered
in a serosurvey to estimate the prevalence of community transmission, according
to protocols drafted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Besides, the survey would also be conducted in 60 districts
of 21 States and UTs categorised into four strata — zero, low, medium and high
— according to the reported Covid cases per million population, as per the
protocols for community-based surveillance published in the IJMR (Indian
Journal of Medical Research).
Among the top 10 cities reporting the maximum number of
cases are Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Thane, Indore, Jaipur, Chennai and
Surat. The protocols — titled ‘National sero-surveillance to monitor the trend
of SARS-CoV-2 infection transmission in India: Protocol for community-based
surveillance — for carrying out the survey. The ICMR said in a statement that
the household-level cross-sectional survey will cover 24,000 adults distributed
equally across four strata of districts — 15 districts from each category.
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