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Covid-19: ‘Getting virus doesn’t make one immune to reinfection’

A health worker collects a sample for a Covid-19 test from a resident of Kibera in Nairobi on October 18, 2020.

Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group

By  Bernadine Mutanu

Health&Environment reporter

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • A study published last week showed that there was a 26 percent decline in Covid-19 antibodies among UK residents in a period of three months.
  • But by September, during the start of the second wave, only 4.4 of the adults who participated in the study had the antibodies.

Covid-19 antibodies wane fast among people who have been infected with the coronavirus, a study has found.

This could explain increased cases of re-infection being reported, even as researchers continue to accelerate the development of a vaccine.

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