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Health
Ella Pickover & Ketsuda Phoutinane

Woman catches Covid twice in 20 days in 'pandemic's shortest ever reinfection'

A woman caught coronavirus twice in the space of 20 days in what is believed to have been the shortest time between two infections since the start of the pandemic.

First infected with the Delta variant, the 31-year-old healthcare worker from Spain then caught Omicron 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".

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