LIVE | Also reinfections in the Netherlands and Belgium | Inland

Recontamination with SARS-CoV-2 has also been established in the Netherlands. Virologist Marion Koopmans says this to the NOS in a response to the news from Hong Kong from earlier today. There, a man appears to have been infected with the corona virus twice.

In the Netherlands, this concerns an elderly patient with a deteriorated immune system, reports Koopmans, one of the most important advisers to the World Health Organization and the cabinet.

“SARS-CoV-2 infections all have a different fingerprint, a genetic code,” says Koopmans. “People can carry something for a long time after an infection and secrete a little RNA now and then.” That is the genetic material of these types of viruses.

For an official recontamination, she says, researchers must be able to demonstrate that the codes of that RNA differ. This appears to be the case with patients in Hong Kong and the Netherlands.

In Belgium, a reinfection with the corona virus was also revealed on Monday. This concerns a woman in Leuven, who three months after the first time, became infected again with SARS-CoV-2.

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