Western media: Spain has found 4 cases of new coronavirus infection

According to the website of the Spanish newspaper Abessai reported on January 6, according to the health department of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia, Spain, there is a person who has been infected with the virus as many as four times since the new crown virus landed in Spain in March 2020. Another 330 people have been infected three times in the nearly two years that they have coexisted with the new coronavirus. Although somewhat bizarre, given that the Spanish authorities have been implementing preventive measures and carrying out vaccination campaigns, the difference between the impact of the new crown virus on infected and non-infected people will become smaller and smaller, so this trend may become more and more obvious.

The government of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia published the above information at a press conference on January 5 to facilitate the latest epidemiology of the sixth wave of the epidemic, which is the first time it has provided data on cases of re-infection that can confirm the above trend.

According to the above data, about 2% of the infections detected since the beginning of the pandemic in the autonomous region of Catalonia have been duplicate infections. However, with the onset of the Omiljung variant, the rate of re-infection has risen significantly – among currently infected people, 8% of infected people under 50 are repeat infections, compared with 5.25% of those over 50 years old.

According to the autonomous region's public health department, the 331 "record holders of infections" had different infection processes, but at least two months apart from each infection, and most of them had been infected with 3 different variants of the virus. The spokesperson did not provide further details on the cases to protect their privacy. But it is estimated that these people are likely to be a low-resistance group and therefore more likely to be infected by the virus.

Experts point out that the Omiljung variant has undergone multiple mutations and is therefore not easily recognized by the immune systems of those who have been infected with the new crown virus. For these reasons, experts expect that the rate of re-infection is likely to continue to rise. (Editor/Liu Lifei)

Source: Reference News Network