A student from Kerala’s Thrissur enrolled at a medical college in China. She was the very first Indian to test positive for Covid-19 in January 2020 after returning to India following the outbreak of the pandemic. The official report said that the girl has been infected again, a health official said on Tuesday. She is, however, asymptomatic, the official added.
Thrissur district medical officer K J Reena said, “She has been tested positive and under quarantine at her home. None of the family members has tested positive so far,” She said re-infection is nothing new, and some of the health workers have been infected twice.
Sources said that the student was found to have been reinfected after she was retested as she planned to travel to Delhi. Her family said she is showing no visible symptoms and that she has also been administered the first Covid-19 vaccine dose.
The report further said that she has been unable to return to China as Beijing is yet to allow Indian students back into the country because of the pandemic. She spent almost a month in hospital while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 in 2020. Two of her friends, who travelled with her from Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic in China, were also later tested positive.
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