jamshedpur in a first such case since the vaccination drive against covid19 commenced in the district a 63yearold government doctor contracted coronavirus within days of receiving the second shot of the vaccinethe doctor who is an employee of the mgm medical college tested positive along with his 56yearold wife on tuesdaythe doctor had received the first shot of the vaccine on january 19 and the second shot on february 19 his wife has not been vaccinatedthe additional chief medical officer acmo of the district sahir pall said it takes 45 days after the vaccination for the antibodies to fully develop a senior doctor at the mgm hospital said requesting anonymity that there is a possibility of a person contracting covid within the 45 dayperiod of taking the vaccinemeanwhile the health department has conducted rtpcr test of the 18 medical staff at the hospital who had come in contact of the infected doctor besides contact tracing of the people who came in contact of the suspected 18 hospital employees is also being carried outthe hospital officials have been asked to sanitize the premises we have to wait for the rtpcr test result of the hospital staff to know whether any other health worker who received the vaccine has contracted the virus the acmo saidthe health officials also shut down the beauty parlour in sakchi for seven days where the doctors wife visited on monday the officials conducted sample testing of employees at the parlourbesides contact tracing of the customers who visited the parlour in the past three days was also being done sources at the hospital said that the doctor is moderately infected as he has been vaccinatednotably with 18 positive cases reported on tuesday the covid tally in the district has increased to 18371 at present the district has 82 active cases