The World Health Organization has declared that there is no evidence that patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in them are protected against a second infection called ‘immunity passports.’ “We do not have the answers to that — it’s an unknown,” Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Emergencies Program said in a press conference this week when asked how long a recovered COVID-19 patient would have immunity. A study from China about rhesus monkey not getting reinfecting when exposed to the virus is yet to be reexamined and confirmed. As this is just a month old experiment so nothing can be assessed as yet were the views of Pasteur Institute researcher Frederic Tangy. Then South Korea has reinfection of some patients who had recovered from COVID-19. Director of the genetics institute at university college London Francois Ballou expressed that chances are that the virus is like herpes and remains dormant as s “chronic infection” and does not completely disappear. Experts claim Coronavirus dies within 70 days The possibility exists that the results of the test are not accurate and the patients tested “false negative” and in the first place patient had not got rid of the … Continue reading People recovered from COVID-19 are not protected against second infection: WHO