Such data led today, August 17, at the press-conference Sergey Balakhonov, Director of anti-plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East, who participated in a large nationwide study.
– the Maximum level of seroprevalence (the number of people in the population with a positive test result for a specific disease based on blood serum samples) were identified among adolescents 14-17 years – 13.8 percent – said the Director of the Institute Professor Sergei Balakhonov. – And the lowest in the age group 7 to 13 years (3.1 percent).
Sergei Balakhonov Also stressed that after infection antibodies to COVID-19 was detected in 56.5% of cases, and the proportion of asymptomatic infections among inhabitants of the Irkutsk region who have had the disease showed a very high level of 81.2%. The highest proportion of people with asymptomatic infection are identified in the age groups over 70 years (100%) and among children from one year to 17 years of 96.8%.
in addition, the results were summed up in cities and areas of the Angara region in which the research was conducted. The lowest level of collective immunity of 1.1% was recorded in Bokhanskij district, and the highest (12.5 percent) in the village of Khomutovo of the Irkutsk region. Among the cities of the low level of immunity was also observed in Ust-Ilimsk (2,8%) and high in Shelekhov (10%) and Usolye-Siberian (9%).
the Evaluation of population immunity to the virus SARS-CoV-2 in the population of the Irkutsk region in the context of the pandemic was held from 23 June to 19 July Irkutsk research anti-plague Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of health of the Irkutsk region and the office of Rospotrebnadzor in Irkutsk region. The study involved 2 thousand 674 volunteers of all age groups.
