Very Few COVID-19 Reinfections Reported

For the first time, Public Health England (PHE) published population surveillance data on possible coronavirus (COVID-19) reinfections on June 17, 2021, to help monitor and understand the risk of people catching COVID-19 again.

The current PHE data shows that there is a low risk of reinfection with SARS-CoV-2.

There were 15,893 possible reinfections with the SARS-CoV-2 beta coronavirus identified up to May 30, 2021, in England throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, out of nearly 4 million people with confirmed infections.

This is equivalent to around 0.4% of previously infected people becoming reinfected with the new coronavirus.

PHE stated, 'this data highlights that the overall risk, as detected through national surveillance, remains low.'