Recovered patients in Singapore can't spread Covid-19, assures centre


National Centre for Infectious Diseases executive director Leo Yee Sin said doctors check if the patient is still releasing live virus and thus remain contagious. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): 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.

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