Title:
Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say
Author:
Kim Bo-gyung
Published:
The Korea Herald, 29 April 2020
From the article:
"South Korea’s infectious disease experts said Thursday that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of over 260 people here testing positive again for the novel coronavirus days and even weeks after marking full recoveries.
Oh Myoung-don, who leads the central clinical committee for emerging disease control, said the committee members found little reason to believe that those cases could be COVID-19 reinfections or reactivations, which would have made global efforts to contain the virus much more daunting."
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