Recovered COVID-19 Patient Contracts Virus Again In A Month

KOLKATA: A COVID-19 patient who had recovered from the virus, contracted the infection for the second time in a month.

A 45-year-old man from Jalpaiguri city in West Bengal is working as a staff of a primary healthcare centre and contracted the virus in the second week of June.

After testing positive for the virus, he was admitted to a hospital where he had undergone treatment and was cured from the virus. After complete recovery, he joined back his work. However, he again began to witness the symptoms of COVID-19 for the second time and underwent a coronavirus test, in which he tested positive for the virus for the second time.

It is widely believed that if a person once gets infected with COVID-19 and eventually recovers from the virus, antibodies are developed which will protect them from getting infected again with the virus.

Even China also reported several instances in which the patients of COVID-19 were found infected with the virus even for the second-time. This is raising an alarm among the health officials about the efficacy of the antibodies developed in coronavirus infected persons after they have contracted the virus for the first time.
   
Even the World Health Organisation(WHO) said that we cannot consider the people infected with COVID-19 as risk-free from the virus as there are some chances for them to get infected with the virus for the second time. WHO said that currently there is no evidence to prove that COVID-19 recovered patients have antibodies present which can protect them from the infection for the second time.