Delhi Doctor Becomes First Proven Case Of Getting Infected By COVID-19 For The Third Time

Just two days after it was reported that a young doctor from Mumbai had tested positive for COVID-19 for the third time, a similar case has surfaced from Delhi.

The doctor, whose identity has not been revealed, had tested positive for the first time in August and had her first vaccine, followed by the second dose in March.

In April she tested positive for COVID-19 again, followed by another in May, just 22 days apart.

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The Times of India, quoting the study by Kasturba Hospital and Delhi¡¯s CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology reported that this was the first proven case of an individual getting a third COVID-19 infection.

In the case of the Mumbai doctor, the researchers said though she had tested positive for COVID-19 in an RT-PRC test, reinfections can only be established through whole genome sequencing and her samples are still under study, making the Delhi doctor the first such case.

¡°The second and third infections occurred after she took both her shots and had developed antibodies,¡± Dr Jayanthi Shastri, head of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in Mumbai¡¯s Kasturba Hospital, the lead author of a study tracing the doctor¡¯s Covid infections told The Times of India.

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Hospitalised during third infection

The report added that she needed hospitalisation during her third infection, which dragged on for over 45 days.

In the other only known case, which was believed to be the first, Dr Shrushti D Halari, was first infected on June 17, 2020, while on Covid-19 duty at BMC's Veer Savarkar Hospital in Mulund, and twice again in May and July, after getting fully vaccinated.

Dr Shrushti completed her 3-month assignment and was at home preparing for her MD and later higher medical studies in the US. The entire family also took the two doses of Covishield vaccines in early-March and late-April.

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However, the family was perturbed when Dr Shrushti was infected for the second time - on May 29 - despite having been fully vaccinated, but recovered fully.

The big shock came on July 11, when the entire Halari family was infected and hospitalized, put on Remdesivir, barely 3 months after their second vaccine doses.