The State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has recommended that the third round of State-level COVID-19 sero survey should be done in April, 2022, with special emphasis on children below 15 years, who remain unvaccinated.
TAC members, who deliberated on the issue at the 155th meeting on Sunday, concluded that a third sero survey is required at this juncture to assess the level of exposure, especially among children. A district-level surveillance covering patients coming to hospitals should be taken up, the TAC recommended.
“A third survey will give us information on the quality of immune response in people, the level of antibody response and how broad the antibody response is in terms of neutralising all other variants,” TAC sources said.
