Dr. Clotet has insisted that both healthcare workers and citizens not relax preventive measures against the coronavirus.
Catalonia has documented four cases of COVID-19 reinfection , one of them a doctor from the Palamós Hospital who had to be admitted to the ICU of the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona (Barcelona), although his prognosis is good and his recovery is expected.
This was reported on Monday by Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, head of the Infectious Diseases Service at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, to the radio station RAC1, where he pointed out that the other three cases are mild cases of coronavirus.
For her part, the head of the Internal Medicine Service at the Palamós Hospital, Roca Toda, where the serious case was initially admitted, explained that this healthcare worker from her hospital had a first mild-to-moderate infection last March and that in August he was admitted to the emergency room with another one much more serious than the previous one.
The patient's condition worsened this second time and it was necessary to intubate him and transfer him to the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital, where he remains in the ICU, with "good progress".
Toda has indicated that an epidemiological study of the patient, who was on vacation at the time of the relapse, has been carried out, and tests have also been done on the staff of the Palamós hospital closest to the patient, with negative results.
"We don't know where he could have been infected," Toda stated, adding that, like Clotet, he urged healthcare workers and the general public not to let their guard down against the virus.
For his part, Dr. Clotet pointed out that "we believe that most reinfections may be mild," and that is why not many have been documented so far, but "some are serious," such as the case in Palamós and another patient registered in the state of Nevada (United States).
Clotet has insisted that both healthcare workers and citizens not relax preventive measures against the coronavirus.