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Eyebetes Foundation announces results from India’s largest sero-surveillance study amongst health workers

Kolkata, Jul 30 (UNI) The Eyebetes Foundation and Dr Nishant Kumar along with doctors at Sir J J Group of hospitals and with the support of Supriya Sule (Member Parliament and senior NCP leader), conducted the largest-of-its-kind sero-surveillance study in India to evaluate how many healthcare workers had been infected with Covid-19 in the recent past.
The study checked for the presence of antibodies to the Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, in doctors, nurses and ancillary staff. The healthcare workers were from three of Mumbai's largest government hospitals: JJ Hospital, GT Hospital and St Georges Hospital.
In the study, 11.1% of healthcare workers tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies, which was lower than some other developed countries such as the UK (45%, in one study). Some of these healthcare workers had been screened earlier and found positive for Covid-19. Amongst those who had never had any symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, 9.6% were seropositive. This means they unknowingly had an infection and could have transmitted the virus to others, if they were not careful about safety and hygiene protocols.
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