Hyderabad, Jan. 19 -- In a first of its kind pan-India survey on COVID-19, tracking as many as its 10,427 employees, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) found that Hyderabad has the highest positivity rate for contracting COVID-19.

Hyderabad registered 18 per cent positivity, with as many as 2,073 of the entire sample size tested. The second highest sero-positivity was registered in Chennai (16 per cent, followed by Delhi (14 per cent).

In Hyderabad, 2,073 people were positive for COVID-19 in the CSIR's sample size.

"These can be used a proxy for future infection trends," said Dr. Anurag Agarwal, Director of CSIR-IGIB.

The report titled 'Insights from a Pan India Sero-Epidemiological survey (Phenome-India Cohort) ...