A total of 24.19% i.e one quarter of Punjab’spopulation has been infected by Covid, as per the second Sero-Survey conductedin 12 districts of the state.
Sharing the findings of the survey, conducted amongrandomly selected districts and population, Health Secretary Hussan Lalinformed a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singhthat a total of 4678 participants were interviewed and their blood samplescollected. Of these, 1201 tested IgG reactive, of which only 4.03% weresymptomatic and 95.9% were asymptomatic.
Urban areas showed positive rate of 30.5%, whilerural areas reported 21.0% positivity. Ludhiana, with 54.6% total positivityand 71.7% urban positivity was found to be the worst hit, followed byFerozepur, Jalandhar and SAS Nagar (Mohali). Female positivity was found to behigher in both urban and rural areas.
Each district was assigned the task of completing asample size of 400, with 200 from rural areas and 200 from urban areas.