First case of Delta Plus variant found in fully vaccinated woman

Rajasthan: The first confirmed case of the Delta-plus variant of coronavirus in Rajasthan was reported on Friday in a 65-year-old woman from Bikaner, who had received both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19.

According to Bikaner’s Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr O P Chahar, the woman had already recovered from the COVID infection and had received both shots of Covaxin. She was asymptomatic and had recovered completely, he said.

The sample of the woman was sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune on May 30 for genome sequencing and her test report came on Friday. The CMHO said the sampling will be conducted on Saturday in the Bangla Nagar area where the woman lives.

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