Recovered COVID-19 patients in China tested positive again

Chinese medical experts warned that recovered patients may still carry the coronavirus (COVID-19) and spread the disease.
Zhao Jianping, a doctor based in Hubei said there are cases in which patients tested after they had recovered, South China Morning Post reported.
The news came as Guangdong provincial health authority said about 14% of discharged patients tested positive for virus again.
The anal swabs tests of 13 discharged patients resulted in weak positive according to Cai Weiping, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the No.8 People’s Hospital in Guangdong.
Song Tie, deputy director of the Guangdong Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (Guangdong CDC) said they are yet to study whether the patients could still be infectious.
Preliminary assessment suggests that patients are still recovering from respiratory infections and still recovering.
In its latest guideline, China’s National Health Commission said recovered patients would be discharged from the hospitals when they have no symptoms of COVID-19, their throat or nose swabs show up negative in two consecutive tests and a CT scan indicating no lung lesions.
Meanwhile, Wuhan the epicenter of the outbreak, imposed a 14-day quarantine on discharged patients as some discharged patients contracted COVID-19 again.