Almost all Indonesians have antibodies against Covid-19, blood survey shows

A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination at a zoo in Surabaya on September 13, 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA, Aug 14 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Almost all Indonesians have developed antibodies against Covid-19, according to the latest serosurvey conducted by the Health Ministry and the School of Public Health at the University of Indonesia in July.

Researchers examined blood samples from 20,501 people in 100 cities across the archipelago and found that around 98.5% of them had antibodies against the virus, due to vaccination or past infections.