Virus May Reactivate In ‘Cured’ Patients

“About 51 patients classified as having been cured in South Korea have tested positive again… 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,” Bloomberg reports.

“Fear of re-infection in recovered patients is also growing in China after reports that some tested positive again — and even died from the disease — after supposedly recovering and leaving the hospital. There’s little understanding of why this happens, although some believe that the problem may lie in inconsistencies in test results.”