Pune: Top health experts have not ruled out the possibility of omicron reinfection among people, which returns focus on behavior and vaccination that is appropriate for Covid to examine the spread and death.
Maharashtra Task Member Covid-19 Dr.
Shashank Joshi told Tii, “Reinfection is something we cannot ignore in Covid at all, regardless of the variant.
Even if people recovered from omicron infection, they cannot take the risk of masking Inevitably or no cover, because reinfection with a variant is still not ruled out.
“Intensivist Dr.
Rahul Pandit, another member of the task force, said:” There are still no official Omicron reinfection cases reported anywhere in India.
But do not follow the behavior According to Covid after Covid recovery recently is not an option because someone never knows what variants can appear in the future.
Therefore, closure and physical distance is a must to prevent any possible reinfections – both from omicron itself or The other SARS-COV-2 variant.
“Microbiological Dr.
Gagandeep Kang, however, said:” If we use the third period B Ulan between two infections (initial infection and reinfection) as a definition of reinfection, it will be some time before we have clear data about re-infection with Omicron.
However, of course it is feasible, just like with other variants, for people to test positive twice or more.
However, infection is defined by active replication and is more difficult to prove.
“In a recent tweet, Dr.
Eric Feigl-ding, epidemiology, health economists and senior colleagues at the Federation of American scientists have said:” There are many new anecdes about the new #omycron reinfection after Omicron infection recently.
This is of course possible if your first omicron infection is a low dose that does not stimulate your immune system or if you immunocompromised.
Be careful.
“Dr.
Sanjay Pujari from the ICMR National Task Force in clinical research for Covid-19 said,” Omicron reinfection is new after Omicron infection has recently been just an anecdotal case and must be very rare considering the overall burden of omicron infection.
We need to wait for a stronger data.
Because RT-PCR can be positive for a long period of time in some patients, it might also not show reinfection but residual non-infection viruses from the same infection.
“