Break Through Infection Following Covid 19 Vaccination Among Health Care Workers In South India .

Abstract

We here reported Covid 19 break through infections among HCWs following any of the above vaccines in our institution .Breakthrough infections were defined as “the detection of SARS-Cov2RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person >14 days after they have completed two recommend doses of Covid 19 vaccines”. Total we have received 737 responses from our HCWs ,out of which 677 (92%) were vaccinated.  Majority of them 642 (95%) received Covishield and rest 35 (5%) received Covaxin. Out of this 89 persons have  developed any symptoms tested positive fourteen days after receiving full course vaccines.