Booster doses of Covid vaccines easiest barrier against Omicron: Virologist
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hen a person gets an infection even after being vaccinated against it, it is called a breakthrough infection. Chances of it are high with the new Omicron variant.
New Delhi: Booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines are the easiest barrier that must be created immediately against Omicron, according to eminent virologist Dr T Jacob John, who noted that it may not seed the third wave of the pandemic, but breakthrough infections may be common due to the new variant.
When a person gets an infection even after being vaccinated against it, it is called a breakthrough infection.
A new variant of COVID-19 feared to have a high amount of spike mutations, has been detected in South Africa. On November 26, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated B.1.1.529, first detected in southern Africa, as a variant of concern, on the advice of its Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) and named it Omicron.
