Written By: Longjam Dineshwori | Updated : September 2, 2021 11:02 AM IST
Farah Khan Tests Positive for COVID-19
Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan Kunder on Wednesday took to Instagram to inform her friends and fans that she has been tested positive for COVID-19, asking those who came in contact with her to get tested too.
The 56-year-old director said that she contracted the virus despite being fully vaccinated. "'I wonder if this happened coz I didn't put my 'kaala teeka' Despite being double vaccinated and working with mostly double vaxxed people, I have still managed to test positive for COVID. I have already informed everyone I came in contact with to get tested," she wrote in an Instagram post.
Even if you have got your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, you are still at risk of catching the deadly coronavirus as no vaccine is 100% protective. However, COVID-19 infections occur rarely in fully vaccinated people. According to a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), breakthrough infections may occur in just 0.01% of all fully vaccinated people, and majority of the cases are asymptomatic.
Though infections are expected in some vaccinated people, the vaccines are still highly effective at protecting people from being hospitalized or dying, the CDC report stated.
As current vaccines cannot provide 100% protection against Covid-19, it is important to keep following the pandemic safety protocols, such as wearing masks, social distancing and hand sanitizing even after getting fully immunized. Letting your guards down can put you at risk of infection as the virus has also not left us. Not just vaccinated people could potentially get COVID-19, they can also spread it to others.
In addition, there are Covid-19 variants that are extremely transmissible and infectious, and some can even evade vaccine antibodies.
According to an ICMR study released in July, the Delta variant of SARS-COV-2, which emerged in India, was responsible for majority of clinical cases of breakthrough infection of COVID-19. However, it revealed that only 9.8 per cent of breakthrough cases required hospitalisation and fatality were observed in only 0.4 per cent of cases.
A study by scientists from the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease also found that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is eight times less sensitive to vaccine antibodies as compared to the original strain that first emerged in Wuhan. They also observed that this strain generates higher transmission among participants who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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