Healthcare worker gets Covid twice in less than three weeks

Researchers said the case shows that even vaccinated people who have had Covid-19 ‘cannot assume they are protected against reinfection’ (PA)

A healthcare worker was infected with Covid-19 twice in the space of 20 days in what is believed to have been the shortest time between two infections since the pandemic began.

The 31-year-old woman from Spain became infected with the Delta variant followed by the Omicron variant of the virus in under three weeks.