Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 292 'positive retests' among individuals previously considered recovered from the coronavirus on Wednesday.
"RNA fragments still can exist in a cell even if the virus is inactivated," Oh said during the conference, according to government-funded media organization Yonhap News Agency."It is more likely that those who tested positive again picked up virus RNA that has already been inactivated," he continued, going on to explain that the coronavirus' biological interactions with human DNA strands show its lack of ability to"create chronic infections.
City residents are seen wearing masks while walking through Seoul, South Korea, in early March. Though the country has experienced a relatively mild outbreak of the new coronavirus compared to other nations, concern over its incidence of"positive retests" has grown throughout April.KCDC shared preliminary findings of an investigation into the retests on April 17, saying the average time between a recovered coronavirus patient's discharge and positive test result was roughly 13.
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