Revealed: B.1.617.2 variant found in healthcare workers of Delhi’s Apollo Hospital
The strain was detected in 48 per cent of the healthcare workers at the Delhi centre, who had tested positive for Covid-19, of whom 51 were vaccinated with a double dose, the rest received one: Study
The B.1.617.2 variant has been declared a variant of global concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). A study on 69 healthcare workers at Apollo Hospital Delhi who tested positive for Covid-19 post-vaccination found that the B.1.617.2 variant was detected in 48 per cent of their samples.
The B.1.617.2 variant has been declared a variant of global concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) and scientists have stated that it is beginning to take over as the dominant variant of concern in the country. After over 20,000 samples of SARS-CoV-2 sequenced from across States, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium identified variants of concern in 8,000 samples with B.1.617 variant being the dominant one.
At Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi, a study was conducted on 69 health care workers who were infected after vaccination in the first 100 days of Indiaās vaccination drive. All the workers had received the Covieshield vaccine and 51 were fully vaccinated while 18 had received only one dose of the vaccine. The period of the study ended mid-April before Delhi experienced the worst of the second wave in the national capital.
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