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Top Medical Body ICMR's Study Indicates Covaxin Booster Dose Safe: Centre
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.
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South Korea May Tighten Covid Curbs As New Cases Climb To Record High
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.
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South Korea Urges COVID-19 Booster Shots As Severe Cases Hit Record High
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.
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WHO Advises Additional COVID-19 Vaccine For Immunocompromised People
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.
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Moderna Says Those Vaccinated Earlier Had Higher Rate Of Infections In Study
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.
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Covid Breakthrough Cases Within Expected Numbers, Says Government Panel
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.
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Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Found In 25% Healthcare Staff: Study
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.
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87,000 Covid Infections In India After 2nd Dose, 46% From Kerala: Sources
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.
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2.6 Lakh, Less Than 0.05% Of Those Vaccinated, Tested Positive After Jab
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.
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Government To Launch Platform To Track Breakthrough Infections: Sources
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.
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Over 40,000 Vaccinated People Test Positive In Kerala: Sources
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.
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Assam Reports "Very Rare Case" Of Double Variant Infection
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.
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86% COVID-19 Cases In People Who Were Immunised Caused By Delta Variant: Study
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.
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Covid Vaccines "Reduce Chance Of Hospitalisation, Mortality", Says 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.
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Delta Variant, Super Infectious, Caused Deadly Second Wave
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.
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Top Medical Body ICMR's Study Indicates Covaxin Booster Dose Safe: Centre
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.
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South Korea May Tighten Covid Curbs As New Cases Climb To Record High
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.
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South Korea Urges COVID-19 Booster Shots As Severe Cases Hit Record High
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.
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WHO Advises Additional COVID-19 Vaccine For Immunocompromised People
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.
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Moderna Says Those Vaccinated Earlier Had Higher Rate Of Infections In Study
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.
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Covid Breakthrough Cases Within Expected Numbers, Says Government Panel
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.
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Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Found In 25% Healthcare Staff: Study
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.
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87,000 Covid Infections In India After 2nd Dose, 46% From Kerala: Sources
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.
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2.6 Lakh, Less Than 0.05% Of Those Vaccinated, Tested Positive After Jab
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.
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Government To Launch Platform To Track Breakthrough Infections: Sources
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.
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Over 40,000 Vaccinated People Test Positive In Kerala: Sources
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.
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Assam Reports "Very Rare Case" Of Double Variant Infection
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.
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86% COVID-19 Cases In People Who Were Immunised Caused By Delta Variant: Study
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.
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Covid Vaccines "Reduce Chance Of Hospitalisation, Mortality", Says 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.
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Delta Variant, Super Infectious, Caused Deadly Second Wave
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.
