The patient, who had not been vaccinated, was admitted to hospital in March after testing positive for the coronavirus. Covid-19 tests on the patient revealed she was infected with both the Alpha and Beta variants of the virus. “Both were circulating in Belgium at that moment,” Vankeerberghen, adding it was likely that the woman became coinfected with different variants from two different people. The case has not yet been published in a medical journal but will be discussed at the European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Vankeerberghen said that although this was the first confirmed case of a coinfection of two coronavirus variants, the phenomenon was probably “underestimated,” according to De Morgen.EFEjug/jt

Source: The Local July 11, 2021 09:33 UTC