Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
Background
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), around two to four of 10,000 people given two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have tested positive for the Covid-19 disease.
Contracting COVID-19 after vaccination is known as breakthrough infection.
Such cases are not out of the ordinary as the vaccines that have been approved so far the world over are made to protect against disease and not the transmission of the virus.
Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) in the United States, vaccinated people are much less likely to get sick, but it is never entirely ruled out.
Also, it typically takes about two weeks for the body to build immunity after being vaccinated, so the chances of a person falling sick during this period are as high — or as low — as the chances for any person who has not been vaccinated.
Covaxin and Covishield
According to data presented by ICMR Director General Dr. Bhargava, of the 1.7 million people who got a second dose of Covaxin (and thus fully inoculated), 695 tested positive — a rate of 0.04 per cent. Of the 15.7 million who got a second dose of Covishield, 5,014 tested positive, a rate of 0.03 per cent.
