
51 COVID-19 patients in South Korea retest positive after recovery About Fifty-one persons in South Korea have reportedly tested positive again for COVID-19 after they had recovered and been discharged from quarantine. The patients, from the city of Daegu, were said to have been placed in quarantine after being diagnosed with the virus. Days after being released from quarantine they then tested positive. Xinhua, China’s official state-run press agency, quoted Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Monday, as saying that the virus was likely “reactivated”, rather than patients becoming re-infected. As a result of this, the KCDC has concluded plans to send a team of investigators to Daegu, the country’s worst hit region, to conduct an epidemiological investigation into the cases. The development also goes in contradiction with current studies on how the virus works with Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia ...