India’s first coronavirus patient tests positive again

India’s first Covid-19 case, a medical student in Kerala, has contracted coronavirus again. A native of Thrissur, she contracted coronavirus in January last year in China’s Wuhan where she was studying.

It was on January 30, 2020 that the third year medical student from Wuhan university tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the country’s first COVID-19 patient, days after she had returned home following semester holidays, a PTI report said.

After nearly three weeks of treatment at the Thrissur Medical College Hospital, she had tested negative twice for the virus, confirming her recovery, and was discharged on February 20, 2020.

According to the Week, The woman has tested positive for COVID-19 again four days ago and currently staying under home quarantine. She is asymptomatic.

Her samples were tested as she was prepared to travel to New Delhi for study purposes. Then the RT-PCR result turned out to be positive, the report said.

“She is reinfected with COVID-19. Her RT-PCR is positive, antigen is negative. She is asymptomatic,” Thrissur DMO Dr K J Reena told PTI.

The woman is presently at home and “she is OK,” the doctor said.