Breakthrough Infections

An ICMR study has indicated that a booster dose of Covaxin is safe and necessary to ensure persistent immunity to minimise breakthrough infections of COVID-19, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Parliament on Friday.

South Korea warned on Wednesday it may reinstate stricter social distancing curbs as it posted a new record daily coronavirus tally due to a persistent spike in breakthrough infections among those vaccinated and serious cases.

South Korea encouraged its citizens to take COVID-19 booster shots on Wednesday, as more of the elderly fell ill and reported vaccine breakthrough infections, driving serious and critical cases to a record.

The World Health Organization on Monday recommended that immunocompromised people be given an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine, due to their higher risk of breakthrough infections after standard immunisation.

Moderna Inc. said that a new analysis of the late-stage clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine found a higher rate of breakthrough cases in people who got shots early in the study.

The reported breakthrough COVID-19 infections in India are well within the expected numbers taking into account the total infections and other factors, genome sequencing government consortium INSACOG has said.

A little over 25 per cent of healthcare workers were infected with coronavirus despite getting fully jabbed, a recent study has revealed, giving an insight on the breakthrough infections due to the Delta variant.

Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported Covid positive after the second dose of vaccination, while 46 per cent of those cases are from Kerala, top Health Ministry sources have told NDTV.

Around 2.6 lakh people - 0.048 per cent of the 53 crore vaccine doses administered so far - have tested positive for COVID-19 in India after being administered at least one dose of a vaccine, Health Ministry sources said Friday.

With reports of breakthrough infections - where people contracted the virus after coronavirus vaccination - emerging across the country, the government is planning to launch a platform by next week to track such cases, sources told NDTV.

More than 40,000 cases of breakthrough infection - where the patient contracted the virus after vaccination - have been detected in Kerala, sources in the Union Home Ministry have told NDTV.

In what could possibly be India's first case of double variant infection, an Assam healthcare worker was infected with Alpha and Delta variants. This is also a case of breakthrough infection as she was fully vaccinated, officials have said.

The Delta variant of SARS-COV-2 was behind majority of clinical cases of breakthrough infection of COVID-19 but only 9.8 per cent cases required hospitalisation and fatality was observed in only 0.4 per cent cases, according to a new ICMR study.

Covid vaccines currently in use in India reduce chance of hospitalisation or mortality in case of breakthrough infections (or infections that occur after vaccination), according to the results of an ICMR-funded study of 677 second wave samples.

The coronavirus variant first found in India, the Delta strain, is highly infectious and fast-spreading and drove the savage second surge of COVID-19 in the country, a government study has found.

An ICMR study has indicated that a booster dose of Covaxin is safe and necessary to ensure persistent immunity to minimise breakthrough infections of COVID-19, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Parliament on Friday.

South Korea warned on Wednesday it may reinstate stricter social distancing curbs as it posted a new record daily coronavirus tally due to a persistent spike in breakthrough infections among those vaccinated and serious cases.

South Korea encouraged its citizens to take COVID-19 booster shots on Wednesday, as more of the elderly fell ill and reported vaccine breakthrough infections, driving serious and critical cases to a record.

The World Health Organization on Monday recommended that immunocompromised people be given an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine, due to their higher risk of breakthrough infections after standard immunisation.

Moderna Inc. said that a new analysis of the late-stage clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine found a higher rate of breakthrough cases in people who got shots early in the study.

The reported breakthrough COVID-19 infections in India are well within the expected numbers taking into account the total infections and other factors, genome sequencing government consortium INSACOG has said.

A little over 25 per cent of healthcare workers were infected with coronavirus despite getting fully jabbed, a recent study has revealed, giving an insight on the breakthrough infections due to the Delta variant.

Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported Covid positive after the second dose of vaccination, while 46 per cent of those cases are from Kerala, top Health Ministry sources have told NDTV.

Around 2.6 lakh people - 0.048 per cent of the 53 crore vaccine doses administered so far - have tested positive for COVID-19 in India after being administered at least one dose of a vaccine, Health Ministry sources said Friday.

With reports of breakthrough infections - where people contracted the virus after coronavirus vaccination - emerging across the country, the government is planning to launch a platform by next week to track such cases, sources told NDTV.

More than 40,000 cases of breakthrough infection - where the patient contracted the virus after vaccination - have been detected in Kerala, sources in the Union Home Ministry have told NDTV.

In what could possibly be India's first case of double variant infection, an Assam healthcare worker was infected with Alpha and Delta variants. This is also a case of breakthrough infection as she was fully vaccinated, officials have said.

The Delta variant of SARS-COV-2 was behind majority of clinical cases of breakthrough infection of COVID-19 but only 9.8 per cent cases required hospitalisation and fatality was observed in only 0.4 per cent cases, according to a new ICMR study.

Covid vaccines currently in use in India reduce chance of hospitalisation or mortality in case of breakthrough infections (or infections that occur after vaccination), according to the results of an ICMR-funded study of 677 second wave samples.

The coronavirus variant first found in India, the Delta strain, is highly infectious and fast-spreading and drove the savage second surge of COVID-19 in the country, a government study has found.