About 50% of Tirana's population has COVID19 antibodies: Academy of Sciences study says

Three boys wearing masks in Tirana Skanderbeg Square, May 2020

 The immunologist, Genc Sulçebe, presented this Wednesday a study of the Albanian Academy of Sciences regarding the immunization of citizens from the coronavirus.

The immunologist announced that the study was divided into three phases, where at the end of the closure there were at almost zero levels of antibodies in the city, while the situation changed at the end of June.

"Populations covering several health centers were selected. These centers cover a population of about 258 thousand inhabitants. The result of the sampling of this population, which was done in 264 randomly selected individuals, was that the positivity of the immune response, of antibody detection in this population, was 6.4 percent. That was at the end of June this year."

Most interestingly, it is the third phase closed at the end of the year, where it turned out that almost 50 percent of citizens have created antibodies.

"At the end of this year, we applied the next phase of the seroepidemiological study, which was conducted in the same health centers. The sampling this time was in 817 individuals, who represent statistically the sample of the population of these neighborhoods covering 258 thousand inhabitants. "In 812 individuals tested, 405 individuals tested positive for antibodies, 49.6%", said Sulçebe.

Epidemiologist Alban Ylli draws attention not to neglect the measures nor the efforts of the authorities to provide the anticovid vaccine. In one year pandemics have been infected over 57 thousand inhabitants, where the population of Tirana is even more affected and with the highest number of loss of lives.