Authorities: "17-year-old with pneumonia symptoms who died tests negative for COVID-19" (Update)

On the afternoon of the 18th, medical staff are busy moving around in the emergency room of Yeungnam University Hospital in Nam-gu, Daegu.

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Dae-yeol] The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) announced on the 19th that a 17-year-old boy who was hospitalized at Yeungnam University Hospital and died was tested negative.

The headquarters stated, "Specimen tests were conducted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and multiple university hospitals, and the final diagnosis was negative at the Diagnostic Test Management Committee held this morning."

The boy, who was hospitalized on the 13th with pneumonia symptoms and died the day before, had inconclusive COVID-19 test results alternating between negative and positive. For a more precise investigation, the disease control authorities conducted another specimen test at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency level the day before. COVID-19 infection status is determined by amplifying genes and observing real-time changes, where threshold values between negative and positive can occur.

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