India had conducted a COVID-19 antibody test for its citizens in two major cities of New Delhi, its capital, and Mumbai, its industrial center, Aditama stated during the webinar titled "Christmas and New Year Holidays: Strategies to Prevent New Variants of COVID-19" here on Tuesday.
"In New Delhi, although the results have not been published officially in international journals, the results of antibody tests on the public were found to be 90-percent positive while 86 percent positive in Mumbai," he pointed out.
Aditama assessed that on account of almost all communities in the two major cities having contracted the infection, India had managed to reduce the rate of COVID-19 cases quite significantly and rapidly, as their case counts continue to plummet.
Aditama, a resident of India during his time as the WHO director, stated that the pattern of COVID-19 cases that noticeably declined in India bore similarity to the pattern in Indonesia.
In mid-2021, Indonesia recorded a peak in COVID-19 cases that was then followed by a decline two months thereafter. Subsequently, the number of cases remained below one thousand per day since October 15.
Nevertheless, he stressed that the world was still facing uncertainty while recalling that the COVID-19 pandemic had prolonged for two years.
Aditama pressed for researchers to study further information to prevent and control cases in a better way.
The scholar gauged that ancient diseases can be mitigated through adequate prevention and treatment procedures, as they already possess the related information on them.
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Translator: Aditya R, Kenzu T
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