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Coronavirus can strike twice as man, 33, tests positive again four months on

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Survivors of coronavirus can catch the potentially deadly virus again, scientists say, as a "young and healthy" man was found to have been reinfected.

The first case of someone being reinfected with coronavirus has been reported by researchers after a study at the University of Hong Kong's (HKU) department of microbiology.

It says that an "apparently young and healthy patient had a second episode of Covid-19 infection which was diagnosed 4.5 months after the first episode".

The scientists say the case illustrates that reinfection can occur a few months after recovery from the first infection. The findings indicate the disease, which has killed more than 800,000 people worldwide, will continue to spread among the global population despite

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