Discussion & News: China----(APRIL 2020)

Chinese virologists urge longer isolation for discharged COVID-19 patients retesting positive
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1184464.shtml

New research shows that young and mild COVID-19 patients appear to be retested positive after being discharged and they show no obvious clinical symptom and disease progression upon re-admission. Some virologists called for prolonged isolation and detailed observation for discharged patients while using high-sensitive detection kits as much as possible.

Called "Clinical characteristics of the recovered COVID-19 patients with re-detectable positive RNA test," the preprint article was published on medRxiv by Chinese researchers from Shenzhen 3rd People's Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, and Translational Research Center under Tsinghua University. ---CONTINUED---