Positive COVID-19 tests for recovered patients are not reinfections, WHO says
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Positive COVID-19 tests for recovered patients are not reinfections, WHO says

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People who test positive for coronavirus after already having been infected are not getting reinfected, according to the World Health Organisation. Coronavirus patients declared recovered who later test positive are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection, the organisation told AFP. South Korean health authorities raised fresh coronavirus concerns after reporting more than 300 cases of recovered patients who later tested positive again. The KCDC has also not found a single case of patients who tested positive for the new coronavirus after recovering from COVID-19 passing the virus to another person, Jeong said. South Korea had reported more than 350 cases of 'reinfections' as of May 6, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but were caused by dead lung cells during the recovery process, according to health authorities 'The RT-PCR machine itself cannot distinguish an infectious viral particle versus a non-infectious virus particle, as the test simply detects any viral component,' Seol said, as quoted by Reuters.

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