WHO: Fully vaccinated can still catch Covid-19
WHO: Fully vaccinated can still catch Covid-19
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New Delhi: COVID-19 can still infect fully vaccinated humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The risk, on the other hand, is much reduced. The COVID-19 vaccination, according to the WHO's chief scientist, has saved the majority of patients from serious illness or death caused by the virus. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan highlighted reports of vaccinated patients infected with the Delta strain, claiming that the majority of cases are asymptomatic or moderate illnesses.
“There are reports coming in that vaccinated populations have cases of infection, particularly with the delta variant. The majority of these are mild or asymptomatic infections,” said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist on Monday, DNA reported.
Hospitalizations are increasing in some places of the world where the Delta strain is spreading, but largely in areas where vaccine coverage is low, she said. Almost all recent severe COVID-19 cases in the United States that resulted in hospitalisation and death were among patients who had not been vaccinated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people are uncommon.
However, the WHO's chief scientist cautioned that even those who have been vaccinated can get the disease and spread it to others. The organisation asked people to stick to the mask and social separation practise.
“The delta variety is ripping around the world at a blazing rate, generating a fresh increase in cases and death,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated. However, not everyone is suffering in the same way. In places with high vaccination coverage, the haves and have-nots within and within countries are becoming increasingly divergent.”
According to recent research, when infected with COVID-19, completely vaccinated people shed considerably less virus than those who have not been vaccinated. More research is needed, according to WHO officials, to determine the influence of vaccination on transmissibility.
