{"id":66145,"date":"2020-06-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=66145"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:34:32","slug":"nih-conduct-survey-determining-covid-19-prevalence-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nih-conduct-survey-determining-covid-19-prevalence-islamabad.html","title":{"rendered":"NIH to conduct survey for determining COVID-19 prevalence in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a survey in the city to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 among locals, a news source reported. The assessment is aimed at facilitating healthcare institutions to become more aware about the disease\u2019s net infection rate in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-urged-to-ensure-mandatory-plasma-donations-from-covid-19-survivors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt urged to ensure mandatory plasma donations from COVID-19 survivors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIH officials stated that the sero-epidemiological survey of COVID-19 would help estimate the number of cases in different areas of Islamabad. They added that the institute\u2019s Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (FELTP) would carry out the survey. FELTP would also collaborate with the Ministry of National Health Services, Local Government Islamabad, and Health Services Academy (HSA) in this regard, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main goal of the survey is evaluate the risk factor for COVID-19. For this purpose, the survey would compare exposures among infected and non-infected people. The survey would also include the collection of blood samples and throat swabs for testing, along with conducting risk communication sessions among the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-releases-pkr-6bn-to-counter-economic-impact-of-covid-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Balochistan releases PKR 6bn to counter economic impact of COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIH Executive Director Major General Aamer Ikram states that survey would help the Health Services Ministry determine the extent of the infection in the city\u2019s general population and calculate age-specific attack rates, which would lead to identification of fraction of the asymptomatic or sub-clinical infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a survey in the city to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 among locals, a news source reported. The assessment is aimed at facilitating healthcare institutions to become more aware about the disease\u2019s net infection rate in the capital. Read: Govt urged to ensure mandatory plasma donations from COVID-19 survivors NIH officials stated that the sero-epidemiological survey of COVID-19 would help estimate the number of cases in different areas of Islamabad. They added that the institute\u2019s Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (FELTP) would carry out the survey. FELTP would also collaborate with the Ministry of National Health Services, Local Government Islamabad, and Health Services Academy (HSA) in this regard, they said. The main goal of the survey is evaluate the risk factor for COVID-19. For this purpose, the survey would compare exposures among infected and non-infected people. The survey would also include the collection of blood samples and throat swabs for testing, along with conducting risk communication sessions among the public. Read: Balochistan releases PKR 6bn to counter economic impact of COVID-19 NIH Executive Director Major General Aamer Ikram states that survey would help the Health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":63403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30801],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-nih-to-conduct-survey-for-determining-covid-19-prevalence-in-islamabad"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NIH to conduct survey for determining COVID-19 prevalence in Islamabad - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a survey in the city to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 among locals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nih-conduct-survey-determining-covid-19-prevalence-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIH to conduct survey for determining COVID-19 prevalence in Islamabad - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct a survey in the city to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 among locals.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nih-conduct-survey-determining-covid-19-prevalence-islamabad.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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