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#Fully vaccinated Spanish woman caught COVID twice within 20 days

“Fully vaccinated Spanish woman caught COVID twice within 20 days”

A Spanish health care worker has reportedly tested positive for two variants of COVID-19 just 20 days apart — the shortest-known interval between infections.

The 31-year-old woman, who was fully vaccinated and boosted, tested positive with the Delta variant in late December and then with Omicron in January, the BBC reported, citing Spanish researchers.

She did not develop any symptoms after her first positive PCR test, but developed a cough and fever less than three weeks later, so she decided to get another test.

Experts said her case shows that people can get infected multiple times even if they have been fully jabbed against the bug.

Dr. Gemma Recio, the study’s author, told the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases that the case highlighted that Omicron can “evade the previous immunity acquired either from a natural infection with other variants or from vaccines.”

She said that “people who have had COVID-19 cannot assume they are protected against reinfection, even if they have been fully vaccinated.

“Nevertheless, both previous infection with other variants and vaccination do seem to partially protect against severe disease and hospitalization in those with Omicron,” added Recio, of the Institut Catala de Salut, Tarragona in Spain.

MADRID, SPAIN - MARCH 10: Health personnel wear face masks as a precaution against transmission of the covid-19 coronavirus outside the 12 de Octubre Hospital. The number of people confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Spain has increased to at least 1,639, with the latest death toll reaching 36, according to the country’s Health Ministry on March 10, 2020 in Various Cities, Spain.
The 31-year-old woman was fully vaccinated and boosted.
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A Covid-19 antigen self-test kit shows a positive case on January 13, 2022 in Madrid. - Spain today agreed to cap the cost of Covid antigen tests at just under three euros after the government came under increasing pressure over high prices.  The measure, which comes into force on January 15, 2022, follows weeks of complaints over the soaring price of home tests with customers paying between 7 and 12 euros for a single test.
The woman tested positive with the Delta variant in late December and then with Omicron in January.
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Reinfections surged in December 2021 after the much more infectious Omicron variant emerged, and there was another spike when a slightly different version of it, dubbed BA.2, emerged in early March.

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