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São Paulo confirmed today the first case of reinfection by coronavirus in the state. The information was released by the advisory office of the state health department in contact with the report of the Twitter. The patient is a 41-year-old woman who lives in Fernandópolis (SP), in the northwest of the state.
In a note, the Ministry of Health said that he developed the disease in June, with a positive result in laboratory tests. The woman was cured and had a new detection of covid-19 in November, 145 days after the first diagnosis. The case presented all the criteria established in a technical note from the Ministry of Health for the confirmation of reinfection, as explained by the secretary in a note.
Both tests were analyzed by the Lutz regional laboratory in São José do Rio Preto, a city near Fernandópolis. The Strategic Laboratory of the Central Institute, located in the capital, carried out the complete genome sequencing and identified that it is two different strains of the virus, which may justify reinfection.
Last week, the Health Ministry reported on the first case of reinfection and said that at least 58 other suspected cases were being investigated in nine states.
“So far, we have 58 suspected cases [de reinfecção] they were notified by state health departments. In these cases, the person had their first confirmed infection and what needs to be confirmed now is whether there was reinfection, “explained Greice Madeleine Ikeda do Carmo, director of the Department of Strategic Articulation of Health Surveillance, during a press conference last week. .
In the first case of reinfection in the country, the 37-year-old doctor from Rio Grande do Norte (and her name was not disclosed) was infected twice by the virus and will be accompanied to help scientists have more details on how it was produces the second infection.
The first collection at the doctor was on June 23, in João Pessoa, and it showed line B.1.1.33; that of October 13, also in the capital of Paraíba, pointed to B.1.1.28. This was essential to confirm that it is a new case and not a reappearance of the virus, for example.
