India’s 1st Covid-19 patient tests positive for Coronavirus again: Report

New Delhi: On a day when India recorded lowest Corona count, a woman medico in Kerala who was reportedly the first person to have contracted deadly virus, has tested positive for Coronavirus, health authorities said on Tuesday.

“She is re-infected with COVID-19. Her RT-PCR is positive, antigen is negative. She is asymptomatic,” said Thrissur DMO Dr K J Reena.

“Then the RT-PCR result turned out to be positive. The woman is presently at home and “she is OK,” the doctor said.

Her samples were tested while she was preparing to leave for Delhi.

It was on January 30, 2020 that the third year medical student from Wuhan university tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the country’s first COVID-19 patient, days after she had returned home following semester holidays.

After nearly three weeks of treatment at the Thrissur Medical College Hospital, she had tested negative twice for the virus, confirming her recovery, and was discharged on February 20, 2020.