People have been warned that recently having had Covid is no protection against catching it again as the latest subvariant can reinfect you after just four weeks. Experts say 325,000 people in the UK are now catching Covid every day - in part because of the rapid reinfection rate of the new variant BA.5.
Western Australia's chief health officer Andrew Robertson told news.com.au : “They (new variants) seem to be able to evade the protection from either having had a previous infection with BA2 or having had a vaccine. What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA2 and then becoming infected (again) after four weeks.
“So maybe six to eight weeks (later) they are developing a second infection and that’s almost certainly either BA.4 or BA.5.”
