Corona twice?

Cases of reinfection increase dramatically in 2022

Created: 04/28/2022, 17:19

Corona reinfections are not uncommon (symbol image).

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Half a million people in Germany had Corona not just once - and in 2022 the proportion increased drastically.

A current warning from the WHO fits in with this.

Stuttgart - had twice?

Apparently not uncommon.

According to a newspaper report, more and more people who have already been infected with Corona are getting infected again with the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

This has already affected more than 70,000 people in south-west Germany, write the

and the

this Thursday (April 28).

The reports are based on information from the State Health Office (LGA).

As a result, the proportion of so-called reinfections in April was already 3.8 percent of all those who were proven to be infected.

In December last year it was only 0.5 percent.

Corona twice: extrapolation from BaWü to the whole of Germany

The newspapers write that data on this topic is now available from the health administration for the first time.

A corona infection that has been detected repeatedly with a PCR test is considered reinfection.

"If you extrapolate the values ​​​​from Baden-Württemberg to Germany, more than 500,000 people are likely to have been infected again since the beginning of the year," says the report.

A good 74 percent of the inhabitants of Baden-Württemberg (BaWü) have now received at least one corona vaccination.

More than 57 percent of the residents in the state received a booster vaccination.

WHO warns of corona mutations: "Don't lose sight of the virus"

But in the face of new corona mutations, the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that countries are testing less.

"We need to follow this virus closely in every single country," WHO Emergency Director Mike Ryan said in Geneva on April 13.

The virus is constantly changing, new developments must be discovered as early as possible.

"We cannot afford to lose sight of the virus." It would be very short-sighted to think that the risk of contagion has decreased because of fewer reported infections.

The WHO still lists Delta and Omicron as "variants of concern".

The number of deaths reported each week is falling worldwide, as WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.