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Professionals uncertain why some individuals are testing favorable for coronavirus months after appearing to recover

Professionals uncertain why some individuals are testing favorable for coronavirus months after appearing to recover

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April 23, 2020 19: 11:40

Worn a hazmat match, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a rural district of Wuhan.

Bottom line:

  • Medical professionals in Wuhan say there are growing numbers of cases in which individuals recuperate from the virus but continue to evaluate positive
  • In South Korea, about 1,000 individuals have actually been testing favorable for four weeks or more
  • In Italy, health officials observed that coronavirus clients could evaluate positive for the virus for about a month

A man using a single mask opened the door a fracture and, after Ms Du introduced herself as a mental counsellor, burst into tears.

” I really can’t take it anymore,” he stated.

Diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in early February, the male, who seemed in his 50 s, had been dealt with at two health centers prior to being transferred to a quarantine centre set up in a cluster of house blocks in a commercial part of Wuhan.

Why, he asked, did tests say he still had the infection more than 2 months after he initially contracted it?

The response to that concern is a mystery confusing doctors on the frontline of China’s fight against COVID-19, even as it has effectively slowed the spread of the coronavirus throughout the nation.

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