According to an official order, the Delhi government will start the sixth serological survey on Friday to find out what percentage of the population has antibodies against COVID-19 through natural infection or vaccination. The government aims to collect 28,000 blood samples of random people from all the 272 wards of the city for the survey.
The government had started the sixth serological survey in April, but due to the second wave, it had to be cut. Despite the team submitting the results to the government, the government never made public the results of over 12,000 samples collected in April.
The present survey is actually the seventh such survey, but as per the government order, it is called “six rounds of serosurvey”.
The results of the survey, which begins on Friday, will also tell us the impact of the second wave of the pandemic on the city as no such survey has been conducted since then.
Since the Delhi government started conducting serological survey for COVID-19 in June 2020, this is the longest interval during which such survey was not conducted.
Meanwhile, the city on Thursday reported no new COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours for the sixth consecutive day and the total number of fatalities stood at 25,085, according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi government.
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