"Daegu City Reports 47 COVID-19 Reconfirmed Cases After Recovery... 101 Contacts"(Update)

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] In Daegu City, 47 patients who were confirmed to have recovered from the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have been identified as reinfected.

According to Daegu City on the 13th, 35 reinfection cases were confirmed through specimen tests, and 12 cases were identified through a full survey conducted by local governments. As the number of cases of COVID-19 patients testing positive again after recovery increased, Daegu City conducted telephone surveys on 5,001 patients who were released from quarantine in the region on the 7th and 8th, identifying 316 symptomatic individuals. Among them, 257 underwent diagnostic tests, and 12 tested positive again.

The 47 reinfected patients are currently undergoing isolation treatment at nine local hospitals and one residential treatment center. The average period from quarantine release to testing positive again was 14 days, ranging from as short as 1 day to as long as 31 days.

In the case of a 47-year-old female patient, after testing positive for COVID-19, she was hospitalized and treated at a local university hospital, then discharged as recovered around 4 p.m. on the 20th of last month. However, around 9 p.m. on the same day, she developed symptoms such as chills and chest pain and was confirmed reinfected the following day.

Meanwhile, according to Daegu City, among the contacts of reinfected patients, 56 are cohabiting family members and 45 are non-family contacts. The city is also conducting tests on these contacts. Among them, three cohabiting family members tested positive, all of whom are reinfection cases. Daegu City stated, "More scientific verification is needed regarding the reinfection routes of these cases."

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