Belgian Woman Contracted 2 COVID Variants Simultaneously

Belgian Woman Contracted 2 COVID Variants Simultaneously
An employee at an elderly residence checks a person for CCP virus disease (COVID-19) in Brussels on April 16, 2020. Yves Herman/Reuters
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A 90-year-old Belgian woman who died from COVID-19 in March had contracted two variants of coronavirus at the same time, which is believed to be the first documented case of its kind, a scientific congress and Belgian media said on Sunday.

The case, discussed at this year’s European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), shows that it is possible to catch two COVID-19 variants simultaneously, the society that organized the congress said in a statement.