Over the past few days, China has registered a record number of coronavirus recoveries, and the country has sent home over 90% of their patients after full recovery.
Due to this development, Hubei residents have been allowed to leave the city that has been on lockdown for over two months when coronavirus cases surged and spread all over the world.
All is not rosy though, Song Tie, the Deputy Director of the provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said that up to 14% of those that were released after full recovery have once again tested positive for the virus in southern China’s Guangdong Province, according to the Daily Mail.
In the study conducted by the Wuhan medics, the recovered patients showed no symptoms after testing positive again. But the researchers found no evidence that they became infectious after recovery as their family members all tested negative.
Guangdong officials also suggested the people in close contact with such recovered patients weren’t infected by them. Medical experts have raised questions about if nucleic acid tests are reliable in detecting traces of the virus in some of the recovered patients.
On Wednesday, Kenya reported one person had fully recovered from coronavirus, and the Ministry of Health in Uganda said that the first nine people that were receiving treatment at Entebbe Grade B hospital were improving.