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URL copied Vaccinated people better protected against Covid but can still transmit disease: experts COVID-19 vaccines protect against serious illness but transmissibility can still continue and inoculated people can pass on the infection to others, say scientists, warning against complacency in those who stop maintaining protocol after they get their jabs. Transmissibility from vaccinated persons can be a risk factor until global coverage is achieved, top experts said as India’s Covid numbers escalated sharply, reaching 1,35,27,717 (1.35 crore/13,5 million) with 1,68,912 new cases on Monday to make it the country with the second highest number of cases after the US. “Vaccination is simply one of the many different strategies we have to deal with in the pandemic. However, it is not a magical one-stop solution,” immunologist Satyajit Rath, from the New Delhi’s National Institute of Immunology, told PTI.

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