First COVID-19 re-infection case in Rajasthan treated successfully

Patient developed moderately severe pneumonia despite her previous treatment and vaccination.

Amid a sudden increase in the COVID-19 infections, a private hospital in Jaipur has successfully treated Rajasthan’s first case of re-infection, which occurred despite the patient having been given the first dose of the vaccine. The unusual case has caught the doctors here by surprise, as the 28-year-old patient had developed a good quantity of antibodies. The patient, a dental doctor, was admitted to the Rajasthan Hospital here on March 15 after developing moderately severe COVID-19 pneumonia for the second time, with the complaints of cough and high grade fever, which required oxygen. She had received her first jab of vaccine a fortnight ago. Hospital’s Lung Centre Director Sheetu Singh said here on Saturday this was the fourth case of re-infection in the country and the first in the State. The hospital has sent the patient’s samples to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, to confirm if it was an instance of mutated SARS-CoV-2 or a new strain of the virus.