As the first Federal state: Saarland-scale Covid starts wide-19 antibody study

The Coronavirus pandemic, the world and Germany in breath, More than three million people have already signed up with the novel Virus-causative agent of Sars-CoV-2 infected – 165.992 of them in Germany.

The blood of around 2300 Saar countries is examined in the next few weeks for antibodies to the Coronavirus. The Saarland was the first state to bring representative for the country as a whole, an appropriate study, informed the Saarland Minister of health, Monika Bachmann (CDU) on Wednesday in Saarbrücken. The examination for antibodies was to bring knowledge about the actual spread of the Virus and the immunity in the country.

The study was important to gain clarity on the outbreak, said Bachmann. In the Saarland region of 45,000 smears had been examined, only 2600 people, an infection had been detected. With the anti-body blood test they wanted to see how high the dark figure was. First results are expected by the summer. dpa Saarland starts as the first state of a broad anti-body study.

First of all, 2300 Saar countries should be selected for the representative sample and invited to a blood test and possibly a throat swab to the University hospital, Homburg be. Be pre-existing conditions covered. The study will be carried out “over a longer period of time”. You could provide insights from which the whole of Germany, to profit from it. Bachmann: "The study may help us to understand the disease and its Transmission better."

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