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Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in India, March 2020 to August 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly across the world since December 2019. The pandemic has overwhelmed the health systems of developed and developing nations alike (Chowdhury & Jomo, 2020). Countries lacked the required ability to test, trace, treat, and isolate/quarantine the infected population. It is well established that true community burden would remain higher than the reported caseload owing to various reasons like asymptomatic infections, the differences in testing strategies by time and place, variable sensitivities of laboratory tests used for diagnosis, and other factors influencing the health-seeking behaviour of the population (M.SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among the general population and healthcare workers in India, December 2020–January 2021
Population-based serosurveys are recommended to estimate the proportion of a population already infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Repeated cross-sectional serosurveys conducted in the same geographical location provide estimates to monitor trends over a period of time (World Health Organization, 2020a). Information from repeated cross-sectional surveys is valuable for public health decision makers to design and revise containment strategies. A meta-analysis undertaken by Chen et al.
