Coronavirus reinfection case in Cartagena: Possible first case of Coronavirus reinfection in Cartagena | Cartagena



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In Cartagena the first case of reinfection of Coronavirus in the country. It is a 24-year-old, who works in the vegetable section of a renowned Supermarket from the city.

According to him Dr. Mario Montoya, coordinator of internal medicine at the Cartagena del Mar Clinic and doctor who treated the patient, the young man in the month of May He was infected with Coronavirus after presenting a headache, fever and loss of taste and smell.

Later, They did a control test in June that came back negative, however, in the third week of August he returned to consult the medical staff of that health center when registering symptoms associated with COVID-19 as a general malaise, fever, headache and weakness.

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“He was totally asymptomatic until the third week of August when he consulted us. They thought it was dengue fever and that’s why they sent him to the clinic. We rule that out, we ask for a Coronavirus test, which was positive, ”confirmed Montoya.

The sample was analyzed by the Laboratory of the University of Sinú.



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