Fifty-one recovered coronavirus patients test positive AGAIN in South Korea

陽性で入院して陰性になって退院した患者が、再び陽性に。
韓国では、再感染したのではなく、ウイルスが潜伏して再活性化したのでは、と言っているが、

Experts say there is no evidence to prove that the virus acts in this way and studies in monkeys have actually shown the opposite.

And they say in cases where patients produce a positive result twice, it is normally because of a test giving the wrong result, which happens one in five times.

Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline: 'I agree that these will not be reinfections but I do not think these will be reactivations.

'Personally I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative.'

Professor Hunter highlighted that conventional coronavirus tests can give the wrong result 20 to 30 per cent of the time.

He believes the test the South Korean patients were given before being released from quarantine wrongly showed they had recovered, when they were actually were still infected.

そういうことではなく、韓国の検査で偽陰性になっただけじゃないか、と。

だいたい、２－３０％は偽陰性になるのだそうである。