Covid again, less than 90 days

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I had covid around Xmas - tested pos on a lft on 19th Dec and pcr on 21st.
Recovered and was fine, have taken a couple of lft's in that time and they've been negative.
Tuesday this week I started with a sore throat and was negative on tues and weds with a faint positive yesterday and a strong positive today which coincides with my symptoms feeling worse.

Having googled it seems to suggest that it is very unlikely to have 2 infections of covid in 90 days and as such it's counted as the same infection as before.
I know its coming up to 90 days but isn't 90 days yet and this is clearly a new infection, I don't understand how this can be the same infection as I had at xmas or why they count it as being the same.
Can anyone shed any light or has this happened to anyone else?

Sounds like it is new. Unlikely a lateral flow will pick it up after this long. A PCR may have though

For whatever reason the government don't count any reinfections within 90 days as new infections in their figures...

So many people are currently testing positive for a 2nd time within 3 months of previous infection that their figures will be really off.

It sounds like there's no doubt you've caught it again OP, hope you feel better soon! I think with Omicron variants being so different from previous variants people are catching it again much sooner. Hopefully this will settle if emerging variants are more Omicron like...

There are two versions of omicron knocking around . BA.1 was dominant when you had your first infection and BA.2 is now dominant . Despite not being given a separate named variant BA. 2 is not derived from BA.1 and is more infectious ( x1.5) . So it sounds to me like you have BA.2 now. For some reason the Govt doesn’t seem to want to spell out that we two variants not one . Cannot remotely think why !!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I expect its a new infection. Reinfection rate is higher for omicron

I had covid very mildly mid January, now I have it again pretty badly.

The 90 day thing seems to have gone out the window a bit - loads of people seem to be testing positive with new symptoms within that time frame now. Perhaps the newer variants are more reinfectious than the original/Alpha/Delta variants which were dominant when the 90 day thing was first mooted. We know that Omicron is definitely more reinfectious.

My DC has tested positive again.

Last infection was in January.

LFD are very unlikely to give a false positive. They detect active virus so it's extremely likely you have it again.

PCR tests can pick up old viral fragments therefore advice was not to test for 90 days.

Given you have symptoms and a positive LFD I'd say you almost certainly have a new covid infection. Sorry OP

Also Deltas reinfection rate was approx 2% . Omicrons is reckoned to be 12% . That is a big difference .

The government are in denial. I have heard of many, many people who have tested positive with less than a 90 day period in between. It seems to be happening a lot with Omicron.

Reinfections being rare is no longer true. Ba1 and ba2 have changed that. Even the class of 30 I teach have had 6 reinfections within 8 weeks, and counting!

Thanks everyone. Ba1 and Ba2 definitely makes sense, seems silly that they don't update the guidance.
I think they're slowly trying to brush it all under the rug and it won't be a thing come April 😬

Yes a combination of air brushing and brainwashing means that Covid is over . I wish it were but it just isn’t . I had Covid a few weeks ago and it wasn’t a mild cold either for me.

This is mad. Reading these forums, it's clear covid is causing various different levels of illness in people. I can't see how we will be able to move forward if covid is potentially going to appear every 8 weeks or so. Even with colds and flu, you get a break from them.

We had covid early dec and then we all got it again in January.