A new study conducted by researchers from the INSACOG consortium, CSIR, and National Centre for Disease Control has reported that a vaccine is needed to fight against the ‘delta’ variant of coronavirus along with an infection prevention and control approach, even in individuals with high uptake of Covid vaccines. 

This study was conducted in two Delhi hospitals and found that while vaccinations effectively prevent the severity of the viral attack, still cases of breakthrough infections have been reported. There is an additional risk of transmission of disease to a potentially vulnerable population. 

The researchers analyzed data from 113 breakthrough infections among healthcare workers by “constructing probable transmission networks from epidemiological and virus genome sequence data using a suite of computational approaches.”

Source: ET Healthworld