Scientists have confirmed a person can be reinfected by Covid-19, strengthening a 2018 finding by Kenyan researchers that initial exposure to coronavirus does not offer long-term immunity. Scientists say reinfection - although extremely rare - could be happening in other parts of the world. The latest confirmed Covid-19 reinfection case is a 25-year-old healthy American man. "This case report adds to rapidly growing evidence of Covid-19 reinfection," says a profile of the case, published on Monday in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. In 2018, scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute- Wellcome Trust Research Programme confirmed people can catch coronaviruses twice, even thrice.

Source: The Star October 13, 2020 20:03 UTC