A patient in the Netherlands and another in Belgium have been confirmed as having been re-infected with the coronavirus, Dutch national ...
AMSTERDAM: A patient in the Netherlands and another in Belgium have been confirmed as having been reinfected with the coronavirus, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday , citing virologists.about a man there who had been reinfected four and a half months after being declared recovered.The NOS cited virologist Marion Koopmans as saying the Dutch patient was an older person with a weakened immune system.
She said that cases where people have been sick with the virus a long time and it then flares up are better known. But a true reinfection, as in the Dutch, Belgian and Hong Kong cases, requires genetic testing of the virus in both the first and second infection to see whether the two instances of the virus differ slightly.
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