Covid attacks second time

Recovered ESI staffer develops cough and cold, tests positive again

A staff nurse at the ESIC Hospital in the city has tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time nearly a month after he was declared Coronavirus-negative, prompting concerns over reinfection among patients who had been declared clear of the disease.

This is the second known case in the city of a previously recovered patient testing positive for Covid19. Deccan Chronicle had reported on July 11 that

It was on June 15 that a male staff nurse in his early 30s, at ESIC Hospital in Sanathnagar, tested positive for Covid-19 during a random test along with few of his colleagues. He was placed under institutional isolation and discharged on June 26.

He told Deccan Chronicle “When I was first detected with the virus, I did not have any symptoms. Later I tested negative and resumed my job.”

He was tested for the disease again last week after he developed a mild cough and cold and on July 20, the results came in positive.

IT WAS on June 15 that a male staff nurse in his early 30s, at ESIC Hospital in Sanathnagar, tested positive for Covid-19 during a random test along with few of his colleagues. He was placed under institutional isolation and discharged on June 26.

Four days later, his wife, also a nurse at the hospital, and their twoand-a-half-year-old daughter, as also his mother, tested positive for Covid-19.

The second-time Covid19 patient said, “I was in under the impression that once I got the disease and got better, I will develop immunity and will not get it again.”

His second experience as a Covid-19 positive patient has been worse, he said. “I was having very high fever, body aches. For two days, I required oxygen support.” He is still undergoing treatment at the hospital as is the rest of his family, he said.

When asked about the potential for recovered

Covid-19 patients developing the infection again, or getting reinfected, a senior consultant of internal medicine at Apollo Hospitals, Dr Ashish Chauhan, said, “We are still in a learning stage about Coronavirus infections and with respect to its acute presentation as still we are finding new symptoms in almost every other patient.” Dr Chauhan said it was difficult to predict if recovered patients were likely to develop chronic complications of it there would be post-infection cardiac or neurological issues.