IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/epw/ejmed0/v3y2021i4id40953.html

COVID-19 Infection in India: Seropositivity versus the Dynamics of the Spread

Author

Listed:
  • Zameer Shervani

    (Food & Energy Security Research & Product Centre, Japan)

  • Deepali Bhardwaj

    (Centre for Skin and Hair Pvt. Ltd., India)

  • Roma Nikhat

    (Food & Energy Security Research & Product Centre, Japan)

Abstract

The self-referred serosurvey data showed that the whole of India, 31% population has SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Seroprevalence was higher in females (35%) than males (30%). The seropositivity in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bangalore, and Delhi increased monotonously from July to December. Seropositivity in big cities of India was as high as 63.8% in Bangalore followed by Delhi (54.9%) and Kolkata (54.6%). In cities (Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Coimbatore, Surat, Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, and Nagpur) antibodies prevalence first increased with time after a threshold it started decreasing in 4 month time in most of the cities. Intergeneration age dependent seropositivity for both males and females showed an “M-shaped” pattern. The seroprevalence versus monthly infection rate in Delhi and Kolkata showed an increase in seroprevalence with the caseload. In Chennai, the caseload of new infections decreased while seropositivity increased. In the case of Mumbai, seropositivity increased with increase in the caseload in the beginning till October, after that with decrease in the caseload seroprevalence also diminished. In none of the cities, the amount of antibodies titers was enough to stop the second wave of the pandemic.

Suggested Citation

  • Zameer Shervani & Deepali Bhardwaj & Roma Nikhat, 2021. "COVID-19 Infection in India: Seropositivity versus the Dynamics of the Spread," European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, European Open Science, vol. 3(4), pages 27-31, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:3:y:2021:i:4:id:40953
    DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.4.953
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/40953
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/download/40953/9306
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.4.953?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:3:y:2021:i:4:id:40953. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.