Chennai: The Greater Chennai Corporation has started taking antibody tests to assess the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic further.
The civic body has launched the antibody tests in the city beginning with its field staff in the first phase. According to reports, 28 out of the 564 people tested were found to have the immunoglobulins in their blood that are currently fighting the invading virus, which means they may possibly be carrying the virus.
Following this, the Corporation has decided to carry the RT-PCR test for confirmation. The civic body has said the tests would be scaled up in the days to come to cover the public as well.
Tamilnadu recorded 4,538 new cases of the novel coronavirus as well as 3,391 discharges on Friday. The state witnessed the most number of deaths in a single day as 79 patients succumbed to the infection.
Tamilnadu tested the highest number of patients so far for the coronavirus on Friday. The State collected 48,669 samples from 47,539 people for Covid-19 testing.