ISU BOGOR – The latest news from the transmission of two variants Covid-19 at the same time which was first found in the case of an elderly woman aged 90 years in Belgium.
Scientific Congress Belgium and a local mass media report on Sunday, July 11, 2021, found that a grandmother who had died in March 2021 contracted two variants. Covid-19 alpha and beta at the same time.
In fact, the grandmother, who was not identified, was said to have contracted it from two different people.
This case was discussed at the European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in 2021.
From the grandmother’s history, it shows that it is possible to catch two variants of COVID-19 at the same time.
The congressman said the elderly woman became sick with type Alpha and Beta which was first identified in the UK and South Africa.
In addition, his doctor said he could have caught the infection from two different people.
Reportedly Dutch-language public broadcaster VRT Belgium, the grandmother who was admitted to a hospital in Aalst near Brussels, had not been vaccinated until she died.
Belgium, like much of the European Union, is facing problems delivering a vaccine as early as 2021.
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