In the past it was considered unusual for a person to catch coronavirus twice, but as time went on, more instances of repeat infections were observed. The highly infectious Omicron variant is the most common strand circulating at the moment, it is less lethal, confining itself primarily to the upper respiratory tract rather than affecting the lungs. People infected with the Omicron variant have a 25% reduced risk of requiring hospitalisation.
Estonia has registered a total of 551,714 cases of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Of those cases, 217 people were diagnosed with coronavirus three times. There is no data on which strains the people were infected with as the virus variant was not determined in each case but it has been recorded that there was at least 90 days between each infection.
How Omicron and Delta symptoms compare.
A total of 2, 439 people have died from the coronavirus in Estonia.