Experts have warned that despite the signs that the omicron variant is more mild, it is possible to catch it twice.
The omicron strain is now the most dominant strain in the UK for the last month and has led to a surge in cases around the world.
Studies are suggesting that omicron's symptoms are more like cold symptoms compared to strains before such as delta, however the impact of long covid with the variant is still unknown.
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At this point, as the Daily Record reports, thousands of Scots have been hit with the variant, but experts have reported that people can get infected again.
According to the he senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, getting reinfected with Omicron is 'certainly possible' down to a few reasons, said the senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC.
US epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding explained how that can happen.
Dr Feigl-Ding tweeted: "There are lots of recent anecdotes about new #Omicron reinfections after a recent Omicron infection."
He continued: "It's certainly possible if your first omicron infection was a low-dose one that didn't stimulate your immune system enough or if you're immunocompromised. Be careful folks."
His tweet came as a response to an article that quoted experts including Dr Stanley Weiss, Professor of Epidemiology at Rutgers University in the US.
"Yes, you can get omicron twice," said Dr Weiss.
He referred to a lecture he attended by a virologist in South Africa. They said doctors in the country had seen cases of reinfections.
Dr Weiss said: "Omicron is highly contagious and it would appear to not induce fantastic protective immunity."
These also back up recent findings from Imperial College London.
In December they found that the estimated the risk of reinfection from Omicron to be 5.4 times greater than the Delta variant.
Imperial researchers also found "no evidence" of omicron being less severe than Delta.
The rate of reinfection from omicron is not yet known, but vaccines have been shown to be less effective against the new variant.
The World Health Organisation cited early evidence that omicron can evade immunity from vaccines and previous infection.
However, boosters were shown to prevent symptoms in 75 per cent of omicron cases, according to the UK Health Security Agency.
