People pose for photographs on the eve of Christmas at Bandra, Mumbai, on Friday. (Photo: PTI)
73% Omicron patients in Mumbai hospital vaccinated with 2 doses
Even as Maharashtra continues to log the highest number of Omicron cases in the country, 22 of the 30 patients infected with the variant admitted at the BMC-run Seven Hills hospital till Wednesday were fully vaccinated.
“Till Wednesday, we had 30 Omicron patients. Twenty two of those were fully vaccinated while the remaining eight were partially immunised,” said Dr Balkrishna Adsul, the dean of Seven Hills Hospital which is the primary designated hospital to treat Omicron patients from Mumbai. Most of these patients are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Over half of these live outside Mumbai.
This again highlights the fact that Omicron, with 37 mutations in its spike protein, can evade vaccines leading to more reinfections and breakthrough infections, where a patient contracts Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2.