The first scientist-confirmed Irish case of a person being infected twice by Covid-19 has been reported in a 40-year-old healthcare worker who caught the virus in April and November 2020. Seven months later, she presented again with Covid-19 suffering from a cough, headache, sore throat, fatigue and muscle pain. He said that it was “very unlikely” that it was “actually the first case of reinfection”. Previously infected people have become reinfected by Covid-19 through the different waves of the pandemic, though the rate of reinfection remains rare. Third wavePublic health investigators have detected reinfection cases on a weekly basis since the second half of last year.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 00:00 UTC