Coronavirus patients no longer pose a threat of spreading the killer bug after 11 days, according to a new study. Top Singaporean infectious disease experts are confident patients can then be safely discharged even if they still test positive having studied 73 patients.
The researchers suggest the study could encourage hospital bosses to speed up when to discharge patients, freeing up resources.
The majority of hospitals require two negative tests before someone is considered to have recovered. The paper, released on Saturday by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Academy of Medicine's Chapter of Infectious Disease Physicians, claims after 11 days it "does not equate to infectiousness". “Based on the accumulated data