Priyanka, a Chennai-based 29-year-old, tested positive for coronavirus on August 31, about a month after taking her second dose. Apart from mild throat pain, backache and fever that did not

go beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit, she too lost her sense of taste and smell. Her husband, however, who had started presenting with COVID-19 symptoms before her, has only had one dose of the

vaccine, and was supposed to get his second dose on September 1. “He has been experiencing more pronounced symptoms, like higher temperature,” Priyanka says.