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In Baden-Württemberg, a registered corona patient died after a second infection with the virus. It is the first known death in the Southwest after a second infection.
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Stuttgart – In Baden-Württemberg, a registered corona patient died after a second infection with the virus. It is the first such case in the southwest that has become known, and possibly also in Germany. The man had lived in the Freudenstadt district, the state health office announced on Wednesday evening in Stuttgart.
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In April 2020, a corona infection was detected in him for the first time. At the end of December 2020, the man was infected again, which was found in early January. “The patient subsequently died of Covid19 pneumonia (pneumonia) and sepsis with multiple organ failure.” First, the research network of WDR, NDR and “Süddeutscher Zeitung” reported on it.
Man was 73 years old
As the association further writes, it is a 73-year-old man. Stefan Brockmann, who heads the health protection and epidemiology department at the state health office, told the German press agency that it was the first known death after a second infection in the southwest. “There is no evidence that he had any of the new virus variants,” said Brockmann. The Freudenstadt district was the first district in Germany in which the virus mutation discovered in Great Britain appeared.
The man had previous illnesses, said Brockmann. It is likely that he did not develop strong immunity when he was first infected. The chance that a person will be infected with the corona virus a second time is very low so far. There are isolated cases in which the patients did not develop enough antibodies the first time.
Only the third known death worldwide
According to the report by WDR, NDR and “Süddeutscher Zeitung”, this is likely to be only the third known death worldwide after a corona reinfection. In October, an 89-year-old Dutch woman died, but she was immunocompromised.
In December, an Israeli newspaper reported that a 74-year-old resident of an old people’s home there, after surviving the initial infection in August, became infected again and died, although he had tested negative three times in between.
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