Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Tuesday that 56.13 per cent of those covered under the latest serological survey in the national Capital in January 2021 have developed antibodies against coronavirus.
Jain said this is the biggest serosurvey carried out by any State in the country.
The Delhi Government had collected 28,000 samples with 100 samples each from all municipal wards.
The Minister said the least prevalence out of the 11 districts in Delhi was found in the North district, which stood at 49.09 per cent and the highest prevalence was in the South-East district, which stood at 62.18 per cent.
He urged the people to continue to wear masks and follow Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB), despite the low number of corona cases and declining positivity rate.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, Jain said the number of cases, fatalities and hospital admissions have declined significantly, but insisted that people should continue use masks for a few more months and maintain Covid-19-approriate behaviour.
The Health Minister further said three major changes were incorporated during the latest survey.
“We increased the sample size. Samples were collected on the basis of socio-economic conditions. A new, more sensitive kit was used and the testing was conducted at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences,” he said.
The Minister also said frontline workers will start getting Covid-19 vaccine jabs this week.
Nearly six lakh frontline workers, including Government school teachers, MCD employees, police personnel, ASHA and ANM workers, are expected to be administered the vaccine.