Up to 14% of recovered coronavirus patients in China have reportedly tested positive again after being discharged from the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doctors at a hospital in Wuhan, China, where the virus emerged reported that between 3 and 14% of cured patients became reinfected with the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is unclear whether they were contagious the second time, the South China Morning Post reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts raised an alarm that China is facing a second outbreak due to the increasing number of imported cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also worried about the ‘silent carriers’ who did not show any symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tongji Hospital, which identified the first COVID-19 case, confirmed that five of 145 patients, a little over 3% tested positive again in nucleic acid tests, according to state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo far there is no evidence to suggest that they are infectious,\u201d said Wang Wei, the hospital\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said five patients who tested positive again did not have any symptoms and none of their close contacts had been infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, report says that 80 to 90% had no trace of the virus in their system one month after being discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he said: ‘these are just \u201csmall samples\u201d and \u201cnot enough to assure us of the validity of our initial findings. We need a large-scale epidemiological study to guide our disease surveillance and prevention works.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health news outlet Life Times, which is affiliated with state-run newspaper People\u2019s Daily also reported that other quarantine facilities in Wuhan have seen about 5 to 10% of their recovered patients test positive again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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