Fifty-one people who recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have tested positive again – raising fears the virus can be reactivated.

The patients - from the country's worst-hit City, Daegu - were put in quarantine after being diagnosed with the virus, then tested positive again days being released.

Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the virus was likely ‘reactivated’, rather than patients becoming re-infected.

Scientists at the Government-run health body believe the virus may lay dormant at undetectable levels in human cells.


They say that for unknown reasons the viral particles can then be reactivated and start attacking the lungs once more.

But there is no evidence to prove that the virus acts in this way and studies in monkeys have actually shown the opposite.

Expects say in cases where patients produce a positive result twice, it is normally because of a test giving the wrong result, which happens one in five times.

Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline: 'I agree that these will not be reinfections but I do not think these will be reactivations.

'Personally I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative.'

Professor Hunter highlighted that conventional coronavirus tests give the wrong result 20 to 30 percent of the time.

He believes the test the South Korean patients were given before being released from quarantine wrongly showed they had recovered when they were actually were still infected.

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There is more to this covid-19 than meets the eye. Pls whoever is treated in Nigeria should still self isolate.

Hmmmm

Hmm odiegwu

Na wa oh

na waaooo.
where is the human race heading to ?
I just pity my fellow Nigerians, whose govt can't afford to help the citizens to sustain prolong lockdowns, if the need arises.
just imagine, only one week of lockdown in Lagos, we are already developing hunger-virus. the fg and lasg promised parliatives to nigerians, but it's just an audio promise, very insignificant number have actually benefited from the lasg, but non from the fg.
if the lockdown continue for long, lagosians 'll have to make a choice, either to die from: hunger-virus or coronavirus. after all, die na die.
before this weekend, govt's hand 'll be filled with massive arrests, trust lagosians. except there's feasible parliatives put in place by the govt, not just audio parliatives.

Lie

kollinz1234:
There is more to this covid-19 than meets the eye. Pls whoever is treated in Nigeria should still self isolate.

That should be the right thing to do. They should be instructed to observe this measure strictly, due to possibility of a relapse.