South Korea has reported that at least 116 people initially cleared of the coronavirus had tested positive again, although officials suggest they will soon look at easing strict recommendations aimed at preventing new outbreaks.
Other experts said faulty tests may be playing a role, or remnants of the virus may still be in patients' systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others.South Korea plans to send 600,000 coronavirus testing kits to the United States on Tuesday in the first such shipment following a request from US President Donald Trump, a Seoul official told Reuters on Monday.
At a meeting on disaster management on Monday, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the government would soon be looking to loosen the guidelines, which call for people to stay at home, avoid social gatherings of any type, and only go out for essential reasons. Chung cautioned that even when the restrictions are eased, the country will not return to life as before the outbreak.
KaushalyaFem More medical workers get experiences how to take samples correctly is one of the indicator why more test resulted in +....... i hope. 🙏
In February China was reporting the same issue at 14% recovered testing positive again.
KOREA: A COVID-19 patient is deemed fully recovered after showing negative results for two tests in a row within a 24-hour interval -- that will probably remove a test that failed. Currently its thought to be 'reactivation' rather than reinfection.
The tests can't determine between alive and dead virus, question is do they go on to develop the full blown disease again
WHO: Phase 4: Second or later waves of the pandemic. Based on past experiences, at least a second severe wave of outbreaks caused by the new virus would be expected to occur within 3-9 months of the initial epidemic in many countries.
Seen this numerous times now (the article) and wonder whether we are retesting cleared patients? If not, why not
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