Covid-19 spread in the Bhubaneswar and to eventually control it, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started sero-surveillance from Saturday.The Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar will provide support to undertake sero-surveillance.Speaking about the exercise, Dr Jaising, RMRC Scientist, said, "We have been providing technical support to the state government on a COVID-19 response plan, as a part of it we have initiated a COVID sero-surveillance study under BMC.
The objectives of this study are to estimate the level of community transmission, if any, to see the community infection level, among other things.