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I don't think there is any evidence of reinfection. What seems to have happened in some cases is that a person's symptoms have dissipated but resurfaced a bit later. In other words, the patient thought they had recovered when they hadn't.

That said, the chief scientific officer has stated that this is likely to be an annual virus: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/13/coronavirus-outb...




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