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None of the coronavirus patients discharged from hospitals here has shown evidence of re-infection, said a National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) senior consultant.
“Currently, our discharged patients remain well,” Associate Professor David Lye told The New Paper.
High quality studies are needed to determine whether recovered patients can get re-infected, he added.
Prof Lye was responding to TNP’s queries on recent reports of a woman in Japan testing positive again weeks after seemingly recovering from Covid-19.
The Osaka tour guide in her 40s tested positive in late January and was discharged from hospital on Feb 1. She later developed a sore throat and chest pains before testing positive again last Wednesday. Similar reports have surfaced in China, including a patient in Chengdu who was readmitted to hospital days after being discharged.
Prof Lye’s view is shared by other public health experts.
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