SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) - The coronavirus may be 'reactivating' in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - The coronavirus may be"reactivating" in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 51 patients classed as having been cured in South Korea have tested positive again, the CDC said in a briefing. Rather than being infected again, the virus may have been reactivated in these people, given they tested positive again shortly after being released from quarantine, said Jeong Eun-kyeong, director-general of the Korean CDC.
"While we are putting more weight on reactivation as the possible cause, we are conducting a comprehensive study on this," Jeong said."There have been many cases when a patient during treatment will test negative one day and positive another." A patient is deemed fully recovered when two tests conducted with a 24-hour interval show negative results.
Epidemiologists around the world are in a race to find out more about the virus that causes Covid-19. The pathogen's rapid global spread has recently seen the focus shift to patients who contract the virus but display few or atypical symptoms. Korea has been at the forefront of tracking these cases, which are causing particular concern in China, where the epidemic is showing signs of coming under control.
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