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Nearly 20% Andhra residents have developed antibodies to COVID-19: Sero survey
VIJAYAWADA : The result of a serosurvey in Andhra Pradesh has shown that 19.7 per cent of people have developed antibodies to COVID-19. It also revealed that a high percentage of people who had contracted the coronavirus were asymptomatic, said the state government.A month after the efforts to conduct the sero surveillance began in Andhra Pradesh as instructed by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the result of the survey across all the 13 districts are out.With nine more districts being surveyed, the overall districts' results revealed 19.7 per cent had antibodies to the virus."Little less than 20 per cent of the population in nine districts have developed antibodies and they are immune.