To: TobagoJack who wrote (161704 ) 8/25/2020 4:57:15 PM From: Pogeu Mahone Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217774 HOME SCIENCE 2 more people have been reinfected with the coronavirus, European scientists say, a day after the first confirmed reinfection in Hong Kong Aylin Woodward and Hilary Brueck 2 hours ago A member of medical staff takes coronavirus test samples of a woman during drive-thru coronavirus testing on a converted ice rink, in Alkmaar, Netherlands April 8, 2020. Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters Reports of people catching the novel coronavirus a second time are starting to trickle in, months into the pandemic.A Belgian woman was reported to have a mild second case, three months after her first illness.And an older person in the Netherlands with a weakened immune system caught the coronavirus twice too, a leading Dutch researcher reported. On Monday, scientists confirmed the first coronavirus reinfection case : A 33-year-old, healthy man from Hong Kong who had traveled to Spain and back.Experts say these findings are not cause for concern: They show our immune system mounts an adequate defense against this virus — a defense that can help fend off the illness' worst effects a second time around. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Just hours after the world's first confirmed coronavirus reinfection case was documented in Hong Kong on Monday , researchers reported a woman in Belgium had caught the virus a second time. So, too, did Dutch virus experts, who announced an older person in the Netherlands as a third confirmed reinfection of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Experts used genetic testing, in which they compare versions of the virus present in the first and second infections, to confirm these reinfections were distinct second cases, and not just lingering effects of the people's first infections. But just because a few COVID-19 reinfections have started to crop up among more than 23.69 million documented coronavirus cases worldwide doesn't mean that an initial coronavirus infection does nothing to protect people from future illnesses, or that a vaccine won't help stamp out this pandemic. "I don't want people to be afraid," Maria van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's technical lead for COVID-19, said on Monday when asked about the Hong Kong reinfection case . "We need to ensure that people understand that when they are infected, even when they have a mild infection, that they do develop an immune response."