SARS-CoV-2 turned positive in a discharged patient with COVID-19 arouses concern regarding the present standard for discharge.

A new interesting article has been published in Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 18. pii: S1201-9712(20)30126-0. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.007. [Epub ahead of print] and titled:

SARS-CoV-2 turned positive in a discharged patient with COVID-19 arouses concern regarding the present standard for discharge.

Authors of this article are:

Zhang JF, Yan K, Ye HH, Lin J, Zheng JJ, Cai T.

A summary of the article is shown below:

An outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to a serious epidemic in China and other countries, resulting in worldwide concern. With the active efforts from prevention and control, the quantity of discharged patients is escalating. How to manage these patients normatively is still challenging. We hereby reported an asymptomatic discharged patient with COVID-19 who was retested positive for SARS-CoV-2, which arouses concern regarding the present discharge standard of COVID-19.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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