Corona’s ‘Double Attack’! Two variants can also be attacked simultaneously on the same person- A woman doctor from Assam has been found infected with two different forms of coronavirus at the same time, which may be the first such case in the country. Dr B Borkakoti, Senior Scientist, Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC) of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) gave this information here.
the first case in India
Despite taking both doses of the corona vaccine, doctors were found infected with both alpha and delta forms of the virus. In May, a double infection was detected in the patient in the laboratory of RMRC. Dr Borkakoti said that some cases of double infection were reported in Britain, Brazil and Portugal, but such a case has not been reported in India before.
These are the symptoms
About a month after taking both doses of the vaccine, the woman and her husband were found to be infected with the alpha variant of the coronavirus. The couple are doctors and were posted at the Kovid Care Center. The senior scientist said, ‘We again collected the samples of the couple and in the second phase of the test, the double infection was re-confirmed in the female doctor.’ He told that the lady doctor had mild symptoms of sore throat, body ache and sleeplessness and she did not need to be admitted to the hospital.
