More than 500 people reinfected with Covid since pandemic began

The first Covid reinfections were spotted last July but the percentage of overall cases that were reinfections has increased in recent months. Picture: Getty Image

At least 514 people have been reinfected with Covid-19 here since the pandemic began, and the rate of reinfection has escalated since Christmas.

Figures from the Department of Health have shown some reinfections barely three months apart, while January this year, when record numbers of cases of the virus were diagnosed, also saw the highest number of reinfections.