Pune sero survey of 700 finds 85% of them have Covid-19 antibodies

New findings from the August sero-prevalence study in five sub-wards of Pune have revealed that 85% of the 700 subjects infected with SARS-CoV-2 had virus-neutralising antibodies after the infection.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

Immunity from a disease-causing virus comes from what are known as “neutralising” or “protective” antibodies.

Neutralising antibodies, like other antibodies that are created to fight the disease, are nothing but proteins.

These are a small subset of the disease-specific antibodies that are generated once an infection has occurred.

The neutralising antibodies become special because they have the ability to thwart the entry of the same virus inside human bodies in the future. The other antibodies help in fighting off the virus once the infection has already happened.