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COVID-19 testing, timeliness and positivity from ICMR's laboratory surveillance network in India: Profile of 176 million individuals tested and 188 million tests, March 2020 to January 2021.
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- Author(s): Ponnaiah M;Ponnaiah M; Suliankatchi Abdulkader R; Suliankatchi Abdulkader R; Bhatnagar T; Bhatnagar T; Thangaraj JWV; Thangaraj JWV; Santhosh Kumar M; Santhosh Kumar M; Sabarinathan R; Sabarinathan R; Velusamy S; Velusamy S; Sabde Y; Sabde Y; Singh H; Singh H; Murhekar MV; Murhekar MV
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PloS one [PLoS One] 2021 Dec 03; Vol. 16 (12), pp. e0260979. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 03 (Print Publication: 2021).- Publication Type:
Journal Article- Language:
English - Source:
- Additional Information
- Source: Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101285081 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1932-6203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19326203 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS One Subsets: MEDLINE
- Publication Information: Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
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- Abstract: Background: The Indian Council of Medical Research set up a pan-national laboratory network to diagnose and monitor Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Based on these data, we describe the epidemiology of the pandemic at national and sub-national levels and the performance of the laboratory network.
Methods: We included surveillance data for individuals tested and the number of tests from March 2020 to January 2021. We calculated the incidence of COVID-19 by age, gender and state and tests per 100,000 population, the proportion of symptomatic individuals among those tested, the proportion of repeat tests and test positivity. We computed median (Interquartile range-IQR) days needed for selected surveillance activities to describe timeliness.
Results: The analysis included 176 million individuals and 188 million tests. The overall incidence of COVID-19 was 0.8%, and 12,584 persons per 100,000 population were tested. 6.1% of individuals tested returned a positive result. Ten of the 37 Indian States and Union Territories accounted for about 75.6% of the total cases. Daily testing scaled up from 40,000 initially to nearly one million in March 2021. The median duration between symptom onset and sample collection was two (IQR = 0,3) days, median duration between both sample collection and testing and between testing and data entry were less than or equal to one day. Missing or invalid entries ranged from 0.01% for age to 0.7% for test outcome.
Conclusion: The laboratory network set-up by ICMR was scaled up massively over a short period, which enabled testing a large section of the population. Although all states and territories were affected, most cases were concentrated in a few large states. Timeliness between the various surveillance activities was acceptable, indicating good responsiveness of the surveillance system.
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- Publication Date: 20221213
- Accession Number: PMC8641892
- Accession Number: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260979
- Accession Number: 34860841
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