A laborant at the State Health Authorities of Baden-Wuerttemberg works on a test sample of a suspected case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Stuttgart, sothern Germany on January 29, 2020. - Germany's first confirmed coronavirus patient caught the disease from a Chinese colleague who visited Germany last week, officials said on January 28, 2020, in the first human-to-human transmission on European soil, according to an AFP tally. (Photo by Marijan Murat / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT (Photo by MARIJAN MURAT/dpa/AFP via Getty Images)
The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that coronavirus could potentially “reactivate” in patients who have been deemed fully recovered.
Around 51 people in South Korea who were classed as being cured of the coronavirus have tested positive for the virus again, the Korean CDC announced Monday in a briefing, according to Bloomberg. Director-General of the Korean CDC Jeong Eun-kyeong says that the virus may have been reactivated in these patients, as opposed to the patients becoming infected again, since they tested positive soon after being released from quarantine.
Patients are deemed fully recovered after they test negative for coronavirus twice within a 24-hour interval, the publication reports.
“While we are putting more weight on reactivation as the possible cause, we are conducting a comprehensive study on this,” Jeong said, Bloomberg reports. “There have been many cases when a patient during treatment will test negative one day and positive another.”
The Korean CDC director-general noted that the Korean CDC will conduct an epidemiological probe into these cases.
White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci also discussed the Korean CDC’s announcement at a Thursday briefing, warning that we must be “very careful” when discussing reinfection and adding that he needed to look at the data on the Korean cases of possible reinfection before he discussed it.
“If someone clearly is ill and they have virus isolated from them, you may have a prolonged course,” Fauci said. “I’d like to see how long they reactivate. I mean if they were sick and had documented virus and then three months later they had documented virus, is that reactivation or is that infection with another virus?”
“I’d like to see the data before really comment on that,” he added.
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