Today health is the most fragile topic and the amount ofdifferent, incurable, and unpredictable diseases are coming and disturbing human life. After the fatal disease of Conid-19 has now taken a different and rare form in which both the different types of variants were seen in a person atthe same time.
The first rare case which was seen in the world was in March when a 90-year-old Belgian woman was affected with the 2 variants of SARS-CoV-2virus, she carried both alpha and beta variants (recorded in both South Africaand the UK respectively). She was declared dead after 5 days.
This unique case was discussed at the European Congresson Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, according to reports. Theexperts said that these rare cases are not surprising and these two variantscan be seen together. They said that these cases can be common at the place whenso many people got infected in such a small time period.
V S Chauhan, former director of the Delhi-basedInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology said, “Ifsomebody is exposed to more than one infected person, he or she can get theinfection from any or all of them. There is nothing that prevents such aneventuality.”
Chauhan further added, “The virus takes some time tomultiply inside the body and affects all the cells. Till that happens, somecells can be available to host the virus from another source. The immunityagainst the pathogen takes some time, a few days, to be built. During that timeperiod, it is entirely possible to get infected from more than one person.” Itwas also reported that these cases are more likely to occur among those peoplewho are affected by HIV patients.
This rare case of COVID-19 is mainly because the personwho gets infected by these variants gets in contact with more than one infectedperson during a short time period, and in this also there is a probability toeither get affected from one or both variants. The statics for this infectionis of low probability.
Recently, a doctor who was fully vaccinated got affectedby both the variants of COVID-19 in Assam, India, and as per the reports thedoctors said that this case is similar to any other ‘mono-infection’, also theyadded that there is nothing to worry about and will not cause any severe disease.They also added that the doctors have looked into her case for a month and nowshe is doing quite well because she was fully vaccinated.