Catching coronavirus DOES make you immune to symptomatic reinfection for at least 6 months, study suggests

4 January 2021

  • Researchers scrutinised data from 11,000 healthcare workers in Newcastle 
  • Found nobody who tested positive developed symptoms several months later 
  • Researchers write that previous infection ‘appears to result in protection against symptomatic infection’

People who have previously caught Covid-19 are immune to developing symptoms if they come into contact with the coronavirus again, a study suggests.

Researchers scrutinised data from more than 11,000 healthcare workers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals (NUTH) NHS Foundation Trust.

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