MUMBAI DOCTOR TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 THRICE

While Covid-19 and related new observations and trends and incidents go on here in maximum city Mumbai we find a strange and rare case of a 26-year-old doctor who has tested positive for coronavirus disease thrice— once in 2020 and twice in 2021 even after receiving both doses of vaccine.

Dr Shrusthi Halari, Mumbai’s Mulund-based doctor who has completed her MBBS from Ningxia Medical University China was first tested positive on 17th June 2020 asymptomatic though then she took her first dose on March 8 and the second on April 29, 2021. Later on May 29, 2021, she again contracted the disease with mild symptoms, and then again on July 11, 2021, she tested positive.

“I was working in a Covid-19 centre here giving my services when I came in contact with a positive person then I tested positive for Covid-19. I was in home quarantine was asymptomatic and turned negative in just 17 months. The second time I did show some symptoms, I tested and the report was positive. I recovered after the medication. Weakness also increased over time. I tested positive for the third time in July after my mother tested positive. I don’t know whether this is a new infection or a re-infection, but the virus load increased in my body but we all were admitted in hospital and took everything from Fabiflu to Remdesivir and recovered,” she told The Daily Guardian

Dr Shrushti continues on how due to theee vaccinination, the severity of Covid-19 was less, “Due to vaccine, by god’s grace there was no attack on my lungs, thus everyone should take vaccine.” BMC has for now collected samples of Dr Shrusthi Halari for genome sequencing and analysis. And she’s waiting for results of same to understand why such rare and strange thing happened to her.