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SINGAPORE – The 62 Covid-19 patients who have been discharged here no longer have the virus in them and cannot pass the infection on to others, experts at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) assured.
Stories have surfaced in China that one in seven patients who has recovered is still infectious.
But the situation here is very different.
Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of NCID, said doctors monitor virus-shedding in patients’ respiratory tract – in other words, they check if the patient is still releasing live virus and thus remains contagious.
This is done by taking nasal or throat swabs.
Virus-shedding stops if the patient no longer has the virus in him.
“Patients are only discharged when they have clinically recovered and molecular testing indicates they have stopped shedding the virus,” she said.
This means that should they sneeze or cough, there is no virus from them that could contaminate surfaces or infect others.
Many of the hospitalised patients here are feeling well, especially during the last few days of their hospital stay.
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