Government of SP confirms 1st case of reinfection by coronavirus in the state | Saint Paul

The 41-year-old patient, who lives in Fernandópolis, in the São José do Rio Preto region, developed the disease in June, with a positive result in laboratory tests. He was cured and had a new detection in November, 145 days after the first diagnosis. Both exams were performed by the Adolfo Lutz Institute of São José do Rio Preto.

“The case presented all the criteria established in a technical note from the Ministry of Health for the confirmation of reinfection,” says the state government.

The Strategic Laboratory of the Central Institute, located in the capital of São Paulo, carried out the sequencing of the complete genome and identified that they are two different strains of the virus, which may justify reinfection.

One of them was found exclusively in Brazil, and the other has already been identified both in Brazil and in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Chile, according to sequences compared with the online and global database GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data) – Global initiative to share all the data on influenza, in free translation.

The first case of reinfection in Brazil was confirmed on the 9th by the Ministry of Health in a 37-year-old doctor who lives in Natal and also works in Paraíba.

The case was identified by the governments of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba, who used the method of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) by genetic sequencing, which confirmed that the woman was infected by two different strains of the virus.

The case had been under investigation since October 23, when the RN Health Surveillance Strategic Information Center (CIEVS-RN) received notification of the suspicion.

His first infection occurred in June. After presenting a flu-like syndrome (headache, abdominal pain, and runny nose) on day 17, the patient underwent the RT-PCR test in Paraíba on June 23.