Karachi
December 13, 2020
Growing incidence of SARS-CoV-2 or Covid-19 re-infections has emerged as a serious cause of concern among physicians treating patients of the viral infection at various health facilities in Pakistan where dozens of patients have been reported having a repeated coronavirus infection with severe illness second time.
The first death due to the COVID-19 re-infection was reported in October this year in Pakistan when a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Rashid Rabbani, died after contracting the viral infection again after testing positive for the disease in May.
Earlier thought to be a rare phenomenon, growing cases of re-infection with the novel coronavirus have started ringing alarm bells among physicians in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar where dozens of cases of the Covid-19 re-infection have been reported.