Ziqitza Limited - Long Covid Are vaccines effective in preventing worrisome symptoms
                     Ziqitza Limited - Long Covid: Are vaccines effective 
in preventing worrisome symptoms?
There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic in India unified 
resources from all sectors, in the fight against the spread of the 
virus. The pandemic forced the financial, medical and 
technological infrastructure to contribute and fight together 
against the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and assist in treatment 
of patients. Ziqitza Healthcare ltd, one of India’s leading 
healthcare and emergency service providers, points out that 
India has witnessed a stupendous success rate in its vaccination 
drive. As per the latest data by the  health ministry, uptil May 
30th 2022, 1,92,97,74,973 vaccine doses have been 
administered. The death rate has come down and the survival 
rate has witnessed an increase. However, despite long-covid as a 
condition is emerging within the country. People who have 
recovered from the Coronavirus disease, have reported 
experiencing some post-COVID syndrome, commonly referred as 
long-Covid.
Pointing towards the scientific evidence, Ziqitza explains 
that compared to Delta variant, Omicron variant and its 
sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, are less fatal and dangerous. 
Ziqitza Healthcare further elaborates that the major 
difference between the Omicron and Delta variant is that 
Omicron does not infect cells deep in lungs as Delta 
variant. Therefore, it is proved that the delta variant 
caused more damage to people’s lungs, forcing 
inflammatory immune responses which further caused 
tissue damage and oxygen deprivation. All this led to 
increased cases of death, and if not death, then incidences 
of long-Covid.

Ziqitza Rajasthan that has been actively working in the 
healthcare sector states that the most common symptoms 
that people experience who complain of long-covid are 
breathlessness, cough, fatigue, tiredness, headache, joint and 
muscle pain etc. ZHL Rajasthan explains that the prime 
reason why the Omicron variant couldn’t cause much damage 
is that the maximum number of people who have been 
vaccinated contributed to the herd immunity rendering 
Omicron variant less fatal and dangerous.
 
India currently has three vaccines available with high levels of 
efficacies. COVID-19 vaccines have proved to be beneficial 
against highly contagious Omicron and Delta variants. Ziqitza 
Limited explains that COVID-19 vaccines when administered 
develop a wider range of antibodies to fight mutations of the 
highly contagious Omicron variant.
Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan remarks that the primary challenge with 
the Long-Covid related research is defining the condition. Since 
the symptoms vary from person to person, and the inconsistencies 
make it difficult to estimate how much vaccine curbs long-covid. 
Long Covid can be broadly classified into three kinds - the first 
category, is of those people who do not recover fully and continue 
to have ongoing symptoms because of direct cell damage caused 
by the COVID-19 virus. Second category can be attributed to those 
people whose symptoms are chronic and require hospitalisation 
for weeks including intensive care. Third category of Long covid 
denotes those where symptoms appear after full recovery from 
the disease. There have been instances of Long Covid even with 
mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. People who have had no symptoms are 
reporting long covid. Long-COVID is complex in nature and consists 
of a wide range of new, returning or ongoing symptoms and health 
conditions.
There are studies which conclude that vaccinated people have 50% 
lower risk of developing long-covid. However, there have been 
instances, which have proved otherwise.
 Ziqitza Health care limited cites media reports and states that in 
India, around 4crore people have been suffering from Long-Covid since 
the year 2020, and these are the cases that have been reported. 
Taking into consideration the unreported cases, the actual figure could 
be much worse. 
The scientific community is divided between tests and 
reports which presents use case scenarios wherein in few 
instances vaccines have been rewarding and have prevented 
long-covid; and then there have been incidents where 
vaccinated people have reported long-covid symptoms. 
There is no clear consensus whether vaccines are effective 
against long-covid or not. However, it is universally accepted 
that prevention is better than cure. People must continue to 
follow and adhere to Covid-19 safety guidelines and get 
vaccinated as soon as possible and take booster doses. 
Maximum number of vaccinated people in communities will 
promote herd immunity and provide better protection from 
existing variants and any other new mutated variants that 
might breakout in the future.