Until now, being Covid-19 positive was thought to mean having contracted a strain, whether original or a variant. But examinations carried out on a woman who died last March in Belgium reveal thatshe was carrying two variants at the same time, Alpha and Beta, reveals AFP in a dispatch taken up by 20 minutes.
His health deteriorated very quickly.
The patient was 90 years old, she was not vaccinated against Covid-19. When she arrived at the hospital, she was detected positive, without showing any respiratory distress at first. Five days later, his condition worsened leading to his death. Sequencing of her samples revealed that she had been infected with two variants, either that she was victim of a “co-infection with SARS-CoV-2” specifies a press release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
The rapidity of the deterioration of his state of health questions the scientists, but the latter specify that there is nothing to confirm that the co-infection is responsible. Another person was reportedly detected with two variants in Brazil. But these are the first observations of this type. That said, the authors of the study speak of a phenomenon that could be underestimated.
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