ghaziabad the serosurvey in 11 districts including ghaziabad which was slated to start from friday has been postponed for a week after several senior health officers tested positive for covid19 officials said the survey will now start from september 34 the survey was initially supposed to start from august 26 with the help of king georges medical university however it was deferred to august 28 officials said the directorgeneral of family welfare mithilesh chaturvedi who is also the director of communicable diseases and some health officials at kgmu tested positive dr vikasendu agrawal state surveillance officer integrated disease surveillance programme said we have decided to start the survey in the first week of september all logistics are in place and we can start the sample collection at a 24hour notice other districts where the serosurvey is to be held are kanpur city varanasi agra kaushambi prayagraj gorakhpur meerut moradabad lucknow and baghpat from ghaziabad 1080 samples from 45 clusters are to be collected for the survey of 45 clusters nine are in rural areas the survey will be completed over five days along with covid19 people will also be checked for antibodies for hepatitisb and hepatitisc meanwhile the icmr has completed its serosurvey in nine other up districts unnao auraiya bareilly amroha gautam budh nagar saharanpur gonda mau and balrampur and will send 3600 samples to a chennaibased lab for testing an icmr scientist said the report will be available in the next 10 days watch ghaziabad serosurvey put off after health officers test covidpositive