Here’s why coronavirus tests sometimes come back positive again after recovery

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Some of the recovered coronavirus patients from China, Italy, Japan, and South Korea tested positive after being discharged.
Doctors don’t believe this is a sign of reinfection, as the immune system can beat the COVID-19 disease.
There may be various reasons why testing turns positive after recovery.
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The coronavirus pandemic is still wreaking havoc in many countries where authorities have finally realized that harsher measures are needed to reduce the number of active COVID-19 cases so that local medical health systems aren’t overwhelmed. The world now has over 201,000 confirmed cases, with the highly-infectious disease taking the lives of over 8,000 patients. These are the numbers you usually hear about in reports, but there’s one other figure that deserves just as much attention, and that’s the number of recovered cases.

More than 82,000 people, most of them from China, have been declared virus-free, and they can help researchers come up with vaccines and treatments that could help with more severe cases. However, some of the patients who were discharged from the hospital later tested positive for the virus, puzzling doctors who are attempting to fight the disease. It appears, however, there may be several explanations for why a person might retest positive for the virus, so you shouldn’t panic if it happens to you.

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