Health: Men in 30s prone to Covid-19 reinfections, says Bahrain study – Gulf Digital News

Health: Men in 30s prone to Covid-19 reinfections, says Bahrain study – Gulf Digital News

A BAHRAIN study has shed new light on Covid-19 with researchers finding that people aged between 30 and 39, especially men, were more prone to reinfections.

The team probed 1,362 Covid-19 reinfections in Bahrain between April 2020 and July last year during the Alpha and Delta waves before arriving at the conclusion.

They also found that the majority of reinfections occurred nine months after the initial infection, and the affected were mostly asymptomatic during both episodes, with no deaths reported.

The study, titled Epidemiological Assessment of Sars-Cov-2 Reinfection, also concluded that vaccination was effective in reducing symptomatic reinfection, with less than seven per cent requiring hospitalisation.

National Taskforce to Combat Coronavirus (Covid-19) monitoring committee head Dr Manaf Al Qahtani, who is part of the study, said the goal of the research was to expand on previous studies that highlighted reduced infection severity among the vaccinated population.

“The frequency of reinfection among the unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, and fully vaccinated remains unknown,” Dr Al Qahtani said in a tweet yesterday. “The purpose of this study was to determine the rates and associated factors for such occurrences.”

Information was taken from the national database of people who tested positive for Covid-19 twice or more, at least three months apart.

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