Mumbai doctor tests COVID-19 positive thrice in over one year, twice after being fully vaccinated

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New Delhi: In what’s seen as a uncommon prevalence, a Mumbai doctor on Tuesday (July 27, 2021) mentioned that she has examined COVID-19 positive thrice in over a yr, of which, she contracted the virus twice after being fully vaccinated. Dr Shrusthi Halari, 26, works on the Mulund COVID-19 Centre in Mumbai and examined positive 3 times in the final 13 months, the Hindustan Times reported. 

She was contaminated with coronavirus for the primary time in June 2020, after which on May 29 and July 11 after being fully vaccinated. Dr Shrusthi additionally said that her complete household had acquired each the doses by April finish and that they examined positive for the primary time in July. 

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Dr Shrusthi expressed that the reinfections are complicated. 

“I suffered more the third time. My brother and mother have diabetes and my father has hypertension and cholesterol problems. My brother had difficulty breathing, so he was kept on oxygen for two days,” she was quoted as saying by HT. 

Her swab samples have now additionally been collected for genome sequencing as a part of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s research into the prevalence of the an infection after receiving two doses of the coronavirus vaccine. 

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Meanwhile, Mumbai recorded 5 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, its lowest addition in a day to the toll after March 16. The metropolis has up to now witnessed 15,789 coronavirus-related fatalities. 

There had been additionally 343 recent infections in Mumbai which took its coronavirus tally to 7,34,761. 

(With company inputs)
 

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