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South Korean patients released with Covid-19 after 'false negatives' amid fears disease could 'reactivate'

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Dozens of South Korean patients were let out of hospital while still suffering from coronavirus after what is thought to be false negative test results.

The 51 individuals are from Daegu, the city hardest-hit by the outbreak in South Korea. They were all quarantined after initially being diagnosed with the disease but later tested positive again after their release.

Korea's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly believes the virus was 'reactivated' within the patients and proposed that it could hide in tiny quantities in the human body.

However, others have disputed this theory, claiming there is no evidence to support it. Instead they think that the test results for the South Korean patients were probably wrong, Mail

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