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South Korean officials have revealed 91 patients thought to be cleared of
the coronavirus have tested positive again.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a briefing that the virus may have been "reactivated"
rather than the patients being re-infected.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/south-korea-reports-91-recovered-21847011
South Korean health officials said it remains unclear what is behind the
trend, with epidemiological investigations still under way.
The prospect of people being re-infected with the virus is of
international concern, as many countries are hoping that infected
populations will develop sufficient immunity to prevent a resurgence of
the pandemic.
The South Korean figure had risen from 51 such cases on Monday.
Nearly 7,000 South Koreans have been reported as recovered from Covid-19,
the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
"The number will only increase, 91 is just the beginning now," said Kim Woo-joo, professor of infectious diseases at Korea University Guro
Hospital.
The KCDC's Jeong raised the possibility that rather than patients being re-infected, the virus may have been "reactivated".
Kim also said patients had likely "relapsed" rather than been re-infected.
False test results could also be at fault, other experts said, or remnants
of the virus could still be in patients' systems but not be infectious or
of danger to the host or others.
"There are different interpretations and many variables," said Jung
Ki-suck, professor of pulmonary medicine at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital.
"The government needs to come up with responses for each of these
variables".
### - probably/hopefully just a 'reactivation' rather than a reinfection, although even that's not good if this thing is proving harder to actually
get rid of...
reinfection, otoh, is far more serious if that's what's happening, no
resulting immunity to it is pretty scary and means it'll just keep going
around & around forever until everyone's had it several times over, a potentially end of the world scenario!
perhaps even more scary still being, if it turns out they've been
reinfected by a different 'strain' of the virus, several of which have
already been tracked/recorded going around the globe in different
directions, again with no immunity possible because just as soon as you
get over one version you've gots yet another version to deal with all over again as it keeps evolving into ever new strains! yak! plus there might be
no such thing as a vaccine for something like that!
fingers crossed peeps or things could get 'really' bad!
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