India’s first COVID patient again tests positive for the virus

A year and 5 months after making history of sorts by becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in India, a 20-year-old girl from Kerala’s Thrissur, who was a student in China’s Wuhan, has once again tested positive for coronavirus, according to reports.

“She was to return to her university in Wuhan to resume her studies, for which she had to take a mandatory COVID test. That test turned out positive. She has no symptoms” local TV channel Mathrubhumi reported quoting Thrissur medical officer.

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Exactly a month after China alerted global health organizations about several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan,  India recorded its first COVID-19 case on January 30, 2020.

The patient was the 20-year-old medical student, who studied at Wuhan University in China, and had returned to her native place in Thrissur on January 24. Within days, she  started showing flu-like symptoms. She immediately informed the healthcare authorities and was admitted in the government medical college on January 27. Three weeks later, she was back home after testing negative for COVID-19 in two consecutive tests.

In an interview to local media later, she had said that she was happy that she did not infect anyone.

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The coronavirus infection, first reported in China, spread like wildfire touching every corner of the world, which has witnessed several  waves of the virus, each deadlier than the previous.

India is currently recovering from a deadly second wave of the pandemic that claimed more than 1 lakh lives and left the healthcare system tottering. And it is also bracing for a possible third wave that experts say will hit sometime in September.

A July 5 report by SBI said that COVID-19 cases can start rising by the second fortnight of August with peak cases at least a month later. The report came  days after a government panel said that the third wave of COVID-19 can hit its peak between October-November.