Medical experts at home and abroad have rejected claims of emergence of a reinfection case in Pakistan.

It was claimed on social media that a doctor of Mayo Hospital, who made a complete recovery had been infected again and was exhibiting more severe symptoms than he had at the time of first diagnosis, suggesting the existence of more than one strain of SARS-COV-2.

An expert of infectious diseases in the US, Dr Faheem Younus, disagreed with the claim. “Will I get COVID twice in the same year? EXTREMELY unlikely. Despite 8 million+ cases, reinfection hasn’t been reported. Patients who fully recover are likely immune. Duration of immunity unclear. Every recovered person is a barrier to future chains of community transmission,” he tweeted.

Dr Rana Safdar, Chief Disease Surveillance at the National Institute of Health and National Coordinator for Polio Eradication said that around 50,000 whole genome sequencings had been done across the globe to see if Covid-19 could infect a person again. “However, not a single study proved that the virus can infect a person who is already infected and recovered from the disease,”

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