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The study followed 12,248 health care workers, 7170 of whom had received the first dose of vaccine, with 3650 subsequently receiving the second dose. The vaccine administered was Covishield.
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NEW DELHI: Majority of the breakthrough infections following vaccination with Covishield and Covaxin were caused by SARS CoV2 lineage B.1.617.2, which is a variant of concern (VoC), according to study based on the genomic analysis of vaccine breakthrough infections in collaboration with clinicians at the AIIMS, New Delhi.
The analysis included 63 cases of vaccine breakthrough infections in Delhi, out of which 36 patients received two doses, while 27 had received one dose of vaccine. Ten patients received Covishield while 53 received Covaxin.
“B.1.617.2 was found to be the predominant lineage with 23 samples (63.9%) out of which 12 were in fully vaccinated and 11 in partially vaccinated groups. Four samples with 11.1% and 1 sample with 2.8% were assigned the lineages B.1.617.1 and B.1.1.7 respectively,” according to the study in preprints.