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Hybrid Immunity might prevent Omicron outbreak : Expert

Jalandhar, Dec 23 (UNI) Hybrid immunity may protect us in a large way and might be the key to preventing an Omicron outbreak in India.
Epidemiologist Dr Naresh Purohit, Advisor- National Immunisation Programme told UNI here over phone after addressing a webinar on Fight Against Omicron organised by the Faridkot based Baba Farid University of Health Sciences on Thursday , that much of the population in India got infected in the first COVID-19 wave, with the Wuhan strain of novel Coronavirus. Then, we started the vaccination drive that ran concurrently with the second wave dominated by the Delta variant. During the second wave, many partially vaccinated people were infected, while there were others who took the vaccine after recovering from COVID-19. There were different combinations that induced immunity in people. We can call it hybrid immunity, Dr Purohit said.
Principal Investigator for the National Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme Dr Purohit explained that with the injected COVID-19 vaccine, we develop antibodies of the IgG and IgM classes. We have seen that vaccinated people do not suffer from severe infection as the IgG and IgM antibodies don't let the virus enter deeper in the body. The COVID-19 death rate in vaccinated people is less. He said with many individuals having clinical and sub-clinical natural infection, there are chances that people have also developed IgA antibodies in the nasopharyngeal area too.
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