Feeling worse than you did the first time you had Covid? Reinfections could be more severe for someThe pandemic is expected to escalate as people become sicker and sicker.
01 Jul, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
18% citizens surveyed had one or more family members getting reinfected with Covid in last 6 monthsOn an aggregate basis, 18 per cent citizens of the people surveyed had one or more individuals in their families who got reinfected with in...
22 Jun, 2022, 04.41 PM IST
How often can you be infected with the coronavirus?It’s difficult to quantify how frequently people are reinfected, in part because many infections are now going unreported. Those people may...
16 May, 2022, 11.17 PM IST
People can catch Omicron twice, but reinfections aren't dangerous: Health expertsFarah Ingale, director, internal medicine at Fortis Hiranandani Hospital Vashi, said the hospital is seeing new cases of reinfection, espec...
12 Feb, 2022, 08.26 AM IST
Experts on Omicron: Reinfection possible, focus on Covid-appropriate behaviourAmid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, experts have said that reinfection among people is a possibility. Experts have...
22 Jan, 2022, 10.15 AM IST
Omicron has higher risk of reinfection than Delta and Beta variants: Singapore's health ministry"There is a higher likelihood of individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 to be reinfected with the Omicron variant," Channel News Asia...
06 Dec, 2021, 08.30 AM IST
Risk of reinfection very high in Omicron: StudyThe authors said that they found no evidence that reinfection risk increased as a result of the emergence of Beta or Delta variants, sugges...
03 Dec, 2021, 07.42 PM IST
Not vaccinated yet? You may be at risk of Covid reinfectionAccording to new models without vaccination and masks, people once infected with Covid can be reinfected within four months
28 Nov, 2021, 09.12 AM IST
Past COVID-19 infection does not fully protect young people against reinfection: LancetIn the study, conducted between May and November 2020, around 10 per cent or 19 out of 189 participants who were previously infected with S...
29 Apr, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
Two +ve tests at interval of 102 days with one -ve defined as SARS-CoV-2 re-infection: ICMR studyAccording to the study 'SARS-CoV-2 re-infection: development of an epidemiological definition from India' which has been published by Cambr...
01 Apr, 2021, 12.46 PM IST
COVID-19 patients above 65 years of age more prone to reinfection, says new studyAccording to the scientists, while prior infection gave those under the age of 65 years around 80 per cent protection against reinfection, ...
19 Mar, 2021, 11.29 AM IST
Study shows being infected with Covid once provides older adults with only 47% protection from reinfectionSurviving Covid-19 protects most people against reinfection for at least six months.
18 Mar, 2021, 04.06 PM IST
COVID-19: ICMR official warns against reinfection after recoveryIt is a new disease and information regarding this is limited as of now, Bhargava said, adding that if antibodies decrease in the body of a...
20 Oct, 2020, 10.52 PM IST
COVID-19 again? Reinfection cases raise concerns over immunityThe report was published just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump, who was infected with COVID-19 and hospitalised earlier this month, ...
13 Oct, 2020, 04.45 PM IST
COVID-19: Research on Mumbai doctors find reinfected patients have worse infectionReinfection of Covid-19 has been confirmed using whole genome sequencing in four healthcare workers from Mumbai. All four have a more sever...
23 Sep, 2020, 08.58 AM IST
New Covid-19 complication: Reinfection casts doubts over a vaccine efficacyThe Bengaluru case of coronavirus reinfection puts the spotlight on questions about the durability of immune protection from the coronaviru...
08 Sep, 2020, 07.50 AM IST
Bengaluru reports ‘first’ case of COVID-19 reinfectionThe apex health research body, ICMR, in a presser also said there is "no need to be alarmed immensely" over the reinfection case of COVID-1...
06 Sep, 2020, 07.57 PM IST