Hyderabad male nurse develops COVID-19 a second time positive

Hyderabad: If you've recovered from COVID-19, does the virus bother you again? The case of a nurse at the ESIC Hospital in Hyderabad indicates that a second infection by the coronavirus is possible.

Last week, the male staff nurse tested positive for Covid-19, nearly a month after a previous test had declared him negative after he had been quarantined and treated for the infection.

The case has prompted concerns over reinfection among patients who had been declared clear of the disease.

This is the second known case in Hyderabad of a previously recovered patient testing positive for Covid-19.

The male nurse, in his early 30s, tested positive for Covid-19 at the ESIC Hospital in Sanatnagar during a random test on June 15. He was placed under institutional isolation and discharged on June 26 after a post-quarantine test certified him as negative. He went back to work.

But last week, he developed a mild cough and cold, and was tested again. The test came back positive on July 20. Four days later, his wife, also a nurse at the same hospital, and



their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter and his mother, tested positive for Covid-19.

The male nurse is astounded: “I was under the impression that once I got the disease and got better, I would develop immunity and never get it again.”

His second understanding as a Covid-19 positive patient has been more awful than the principal, he said. "I was having exceptionally high fever, body hurt. For two days, I required oxygen support." He is as yet experiencing treatment at the medical clinic just like the remainder of his family, he said. 

Gotten some information about the chance of a second contamination by Covid-19, Dr Ashish Chauhan, a senior expert of inner medication at Apollo Hospitals, stated, "We are still in the learning stage about coronavirus diseases and concerning its intense introduction as still we are finding new indications in pretty much every other patient."

Dr Chauhan said it was difficult to predict if recovered patients were likely to develop chronic complications or whether there would be post-infection cardiac or neurological issues.