The Centre on Wednesday shared data of the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 after receiving the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines.
As per the data, more than 21,000 tested positive for COVID-19 after taking the first dose of either Covishield or Covaxin, while over 5,500 tested positive after taking the second dose, the Union Health Ministry said.
ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said 0.04% of 17,37,178 individuals tested positive after second dose of Covaxin and 0.03% of 1,57,32,754 people who took the second dose of Covishield, contracted the infection.
According to the data, 5,709 people contracted the infection after the second dose of either of the two vaccines.
“Only 2-4 people per 10,000 population are being infected with Covid-19 post-vaccination,” Dr Balram Bhargava said.
“After vaccination, if one gets infection then it is known as breakthrough infection,” he said.
“This is a very small number and not at all worrisome. Secondly, the highly transmissible second wave also contributes minuscule to the percentage so this could have been even zero percent,” he added.
Dr VK Paul, member Niti Aayog (health) also said the percentage of people who are getting infected after vaccination is ‘very low’.
“Even if people are getting infected after vaccination, it is not taking us to the path of severe disease. We are systematically collecting data,” he added.
Though the government has released data on those who have tested positive for COVID-19 post-vaccination, but it has not revealed the number of days after which the person contracted Covid-19 post-vaccination.
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