gurgaon starting next week haryana will conduct the second survey over three days to gauge the seroprevalence in its population like the first round 16 areas 12 rural and four urban have been identified from where the health department will collect blood samples from 850 persons and these will be tested for igg antibodies the data will be collected using gps and will be uploaded on the departments internal mobile application linked with the indian council of medical research icmr the first round of survey conducted from august 21 to august 23 had revealed that just 8 of the states population had developed antibodies the presence of antibodies in an individual indicates they have been exposed to the virus in the pastin gurgaon district the 16 areas selected for the october survey includes choma urban area khandsa narahpur roopa and rajender park among the urban clusters and chandu dhani rithoj gurgaon village dundareha choma village area garhi harsu bhudera bhondsi rithoj kasan manesar and nainwal among the rural clusters to conduct the survey gurgaon has constituted 16 teams for each cluster like last time each district will collect 500 samples from rural areas and 350 from urban zones random sampling technique will be used the health department said we have all the technical support kits and have also formed teams for the survey the study is likely to take place mid of october it will take three days for the teams to carry out the survey we are hoping that since the last time more people have developed antibodies against coronavirus usually if more than 80 of the population develops herd immunity the transmission chain is broken said dr virender yadav cmo gurgaonhealth experts said at present if a greater population develops antibodies for covid that will help in gaining control of the ongoing crisis analysing the recovery rate data more than 20 to 30 of people in haryana by now should have development antibodies also antibodies start developing after three weeks of the infection hence in the first survey many districts hadnt completed their maturation period said dr dhruv chaudhary the nodal officer for covid19 in haryanaareas in gurgaon which were included in the first survey are basai enclave khandsa paten nagar and tigra daultabad badshahpur pataudi bhora kalan sarai sector 109 aklimpur inchhapuri bhudka bajghera sector 112 palra sherpur and rathiwas the first survey result published on september 4 showed that gurgaons female population had a seropositivity of 138 while males had 73 it was found that with 258 faridabad has the highest seropositivity followed by nuh 203 sonipat 133 and gurgaon 108 rohtak 11 has the lowest seropositivity in haryanaa sero survey is testing of a group of individuals to monitor trends in prevalence of the disease due to the high proportion of asymptomatic or mild infection cases data is available only for lab confirmed cases and does not capture the real extent of the spread of the disease hence serological detection of specific antibodies