Kempen J, Abashawl A, Suga H, Nigussie Difabachew M, Kempen C, Tesfaye Debele M, Menkir A, Assefa M, Asfaw E, Habtegabriel L, Sitotaw Addisie Y, Nilles E, Longenecker J. SARS-CoV-2 Serosurvey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020;103(5):2022–2023.
Abstract
In a serosurvey of asymptomatic people from the general population recruited from a clinical laboratory in May 2020 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, three of 99 persons tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG (3.0%, 95% binomial exact confidence interval: 0.6-8.6%). Taking into account pretest probability and the sampling scheme, the range of plausible population prevalence values was approximately 1.0-8.4%. These results suggest that a larger number of people have been infected than the counts detected by surveillance to date; nevertheless, the results suggest the large majority of the general population in Addis Ababa currently is susceptible to COVID-19.
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