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ARCHIVED - Seroprevalence study indicates 6.1 per cent of the population of Murcia has contracted coronavirus
In Spain as a whole the proportion is up to almost 1 in 10
Throughout the covid pandemic Spain’s national coronavirus monitoring program, conducted by the Ministry of Health, the Carlos III Institute and the government’s central statistics unit, has been carrying out studies to try and assess how much of the population has been affected by coronavirus.
As it is known that many of the cases are asymptomatic and therefore not only do the carriers not know that they are contagious, they are also unaware that they have have been infected, so the study aims to analyse what percentage of the population has actually contracted the virus.
Three studies have been undertaken during the spring and a fourth study has just been completed, the results of which indicated that while 9.9 per cent of the country’s population is believed to have already contracted Covid-19 the equivalent proportion in the Region of Murcia is far lower at 6.1 per cent.
The tests reveal the presence or absence of IgG antibodies in the blood of those selected from part of the nationwide sample, which in Murcia included 1,389 people, 637 males and 752 females. Positive test results were given by 6.7 per cent of males and 5.6 per cent of females in the Region, data which are included in an overall sample size of 51,409 people tested between 16th and 29th November.
Murcia has consistently delivered lower results than other areas of the country; on the one hand this is positive as less people have been affected than in other more densely populated regions, but on the other hand it also means that a larger percentage of the population is therefore vulnerable to contagion.
On a nationwide level, the finding that one in ten Spaniards has already been infected implies a total of around 4.7 million cases, half of them during the second wave of contagion which has marked the autumn.
The results also show a wide disparity among the conclusions reached in the 50 provinces of the country: at one end of the scale, seroprevalence rates of 18.6 per cent are reported in Madrid and Soria, while rates of under 4 per cent were found in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and A Coruña.