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Doctors have reported the first confirmed cases of individuals who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection a second time. The first report was of a patient in Hong Kong, followed by two patients from Europe, Reuters reports.
Toward the end of March, a 33-year-old Hong Kong man came down with COVID-19 and experienced mild symptoms before his full recovery a couple of weeks later, The Washington Post reports. After traveling to Spain over the summer, he tested positive in mid-August upon returning to Hong Kong. Although he was asymptomatic, he quarantined in the hospital. Genetic testing showed that he became reinfected with a different strain of the novel coronavirus than the first time.
Two Europeans, one from Belgium and one from the Netherlands, are also reported to have been reinfected. The Belgian woman first tested positive in March and again in June, while not much information ...
