This is the nightmare of many people who test positive for Covid-19: to be infected again. This time, a Spanish woman had two positive tests in just twenty days, a record, reported the BBC.
This 31-year-old caregiver was infected with two variants: Delta in December, then Omicron in January. She explained that she was asymptomatic during the first positive test, then she started coughing and having a fever on the second, also positive. It was more in-depth analyzes that told her that she had been infected with two variants.
Specialists warn of reinfection
This rare case proves that reinfection is possible whether one has already tested positive or is fully vaccinated. The BBC warns of cases in the United Kingdom. Indeed, 90 days of spacing are necessary between two positive tests, which leads the health authorities to believe that around 900,000 people would have been reinfected at the beginning of April.
Doctor Emma Recio, during a presentation of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, wanted to warn that we had to remain vigilant. “People who have already had Covid-19 cannot be sure that they are protected against reinfection, even if they are fully vaccinated,” she said.
The specialist added that monitoring reinfections in vaccinated people would make it possible to identify possible variants that would escape the vaccine.