Epidemiological analysis of SARS-COV-2 B.1.617.2 (delta variant) transmission in an educational institute.

With emergence and rapid community spread of highly mutated variants of concern like Omicron, which are proving to have high transmissibility and secondary attack rate among close contacts and a potential for probable immune escape from vaccination immunity the need of non-pharmacological intervention in COVID prevention during gathering remains highly significant. 23 One of the notable findings of our study is that all the 37 cases, which occurred over a span of 2 weeks were from the first three academic batches and not a single student from the final year batch was affected despite their participation in the extra/co-curricular and training activities as well as sharing the same residential accommodation.

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