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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
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AFRICA WILL NOT BE TESTING GROUND FOR VACCINE.-WHO World health organisation (WHO) have comdemned the suggestions of French doctors whos idea of testing the vaccine for coronavirus in Africa as "Racists" words. In a states issued by the Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanoms Ghebreyesus. He said, "Africa can't be and won't be a testing Ground for coronavirus Vaccine or any other vaccine".  The doctors' remarks during a TV debate sparked outrage, and they were accused of treating Africans like "human guinea pigs". Though one of them have issedi an apology.
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FEAR AS UK PRIME MINISTER ENTERS ICU. Briti Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with coronavirus late last month, was on Monday moved to an intensive care unit after his condition worsened, his office said. The 55-year-old, who was admitted to a London hospital on Sunday evening for tests after continuing to suffer a cough and high temperature, has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab “to deputise for him where necessary”, the spokesman said.  report says that the British Prime Minister was in “good spirits” on Monday and remained in charge of the government despite his admission to hospital for tests after suffering “persistent symptoms” of coronavirus 10 days after being diagnosed, officials said. We Hope it ends in Good news, as fear grip those close to him. 
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Close I  would  like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts, by email Testing kits which were headed to the UK have been found to be contaminated with coronavirus. The Government has said that it aims to boost the rate of tests to  25,000  every day by the end of April at the latest and has asked private companies to help drive up test production. But one production firm, Luxembourg-based manufacturer Eurofins, told UK labs on Monday that deliveries would be delayed as core parts had been contaminated with coronavirus,  the Telegraph  reported.