Move follows National Centre for Disease Control directiveThe Delhi government will be forming ‘rapid response teams’ to react when new variants of interest of COVID-19 are found in the city through genome sequencing, according to officials. Breakthrough infections of COVID-19 are cases in which people have been infected with the virus despite receiving the vaccine. Meanwhile, the city reported 27 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total cases to 14,37,118, as per a government bulletin. Of the total cases, 14,11,582 people have recovered and there are only 467 active cases. The COVID-19 vaccine stock of the city on Monday morning would last for six days, as per another bulletin.

Source: The Hindu August 16, 2021 18:56 UTC