Researchers have found that the shortest known time of COVID-19 reinfection is 20 days.
The findings were presented in a presentation at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). The unlucky person who caught the virus for the second time was a 31-year-old health worker. The woman was reported to have developed no symptoms on December 20, 2021, following her first positive PCR test and a 10-day self-isolation period, and returned to work. But three weeks later he developed cough and fever, he tested again, which came back positive.
Investigations revealed that the woman was infected with two different variants, Delta in December and Omicron in January. She was fully vaccinated and had a booster vaccine 12 days before her first positive test.
“This case clearly demonstrates the potential of the Omicron variant to evade previous immunity from a natural infection with other variants or from vaccines,” the researchers write. should not assume.”
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