Australia has reported a rare recurrence of Covid-19

The record of Covid-19 reinfection in Melbourne has raised doubts about the immunity of the community and the length of protection of the Covid-19 vaccines being developed.

According to Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett, Head of the Department of Virological Immunology at the Hunter Medical Research Institute, an expert on respiratory diseases for the past 20 years in Australia, the nature of corona viruses is that they are localized in the system. The upper respiratory tract and the body do not provide strong immunity to this property of the virus. As a result, people are likely to re-infect Covid-19 many times. Community immunity to Covid-19 is unlikely because a patient will not be re-infected with the virus if one is present.

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Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett, Head of Virus Immunology at the Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia (Photo Daily Telegraph)

Professor Bartlett’s view has also received support from Professor Paul Griffin, Director of Infectious Diseases Mater. According to Professor Griffin, the reinfection case in Melbourne reinforces the argument that the community immunization strategy is flawed and should not be considered as an option to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Australian health experts are also suggesting that reinfection in Victoria may have caused another strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In the opinion of Professor Sarah Palmer, co-director of the Center for Virus Research at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, there is still much unknown about SARS-CoV-2 and the body’s immune response to the virus. As the virus continues to grow and mutate, infection with one strain of SARS-CoV-2 may not protect a patient from another.

Meanwhile, Dr. Flavia Huygens, the scientific director of Microbio Biotechnology Company, recently said that there is a lot of evidence that Covid-19 patients have been cured but after 40 to 60 days are still positive for the virus. If the virus continues to replicate, the infected person is likely to be contagious, while the patient is still positive for the virus after recovering from the disease does not mean the patient can infect others.

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