India's First Covid Patient Test Positive Again For The Virus

<p><strong>Thrissur:</strong> India's first Covid patient, a medical practitioner has tested positive again for the virus. She was getting ready to leave for Delhi for study so her samples were tested.&nbsp;</p> <p>The RT-PCR result turned out to be positive, she is at home but is okay.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ: <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/3hCw6kE Police Busts Illegal Kidney Trade Racket; Mother-Son Duo Arrested</a></span></strong></p> <p>"She is reinfected with COVID-19. Her RT-PCR is positive, antigen is negative. She is asymptomatic," Thrissur DMO Dr K J Reena told PTI. The woman is presently at home and "she is OK," the doctor said.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

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