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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Mark Waghorn & Graeme Murray

Woman catches two strains of Covid in 3 weeks in shortest gap known between infections

A woman has caught two different strains of Covid in less than three weeks in the shortest known gap between infections, scientists have revealed.

She was found to have both the Delta and Omicron variants. The 20-day gap between infections is the shortest known, they added.

It is feared the phenomenon could generate deadlier mutations that dodge vaccines and spread more easily.

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