Care worker, 31, first person in UK to catch coronavirus twice and beat it
Caption: Care worker first person to test positive for Covid-19 twice and beat it (Picture: Getty)
Caption: Care worker first person to test positive for Covid-19 twice and beat it (Picture: Getty) A British care worker and mum-of-two is one of only five people in the world to have tested positive for coronavirus twice. Heidi Kray, 31, from Reading, Berkshire, has been tested for Covid-19 five times over the past five months – testing positive on two separate occasions. She told The Sun: ‘I always thought that if you develop coronavirus once then you are immune after that, but maybe I’m a special case. ‘When I caught it the first time, it was almost expected given the nature of my job. But I never expected to get it twice.’
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Heidi said she felt guilty taking time off work but understood she had to do it to protect the vulnerable people she cares for (Picture: Getty)
Heidi first started showing symptoms in March, suffering with shortness of breath, a high temperature and raised blood pressure. In early April a Covid-19 test came back positive. Two weeks later she was tested again and that came back negative. But in June, she felt ill again and was sent to hospital for another test but the result came back negative. Heidi was asked to stay at home in order to minimise the risk to the vulnerable residents at her care home, despite the negative result.
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testing across the UK (Picture: Getty)
An IT worker, 33, from Hong Kong was the first confirmed case of coronavirus reinfection. He was first diagnosed at the end of March after showing the key symptoms but recovered and tested negative when he was discharged from hospital. But he tested positive again last month, after returning to Hong Kong from Spain, via the UK. This time he had no symptoms. Genetic analysis revealed he had caught two ‘completely different’ strains of the virus. The Department of Health has said it is aware of emerging international evidence that suggests people could be infected more than once. A spokesman said: ‘We have been clear we are still learning about immunity to Covid-19 and there are a range of possible reasons someone could test positive twice.’