A 36-year-old patient who recovered from coronavirus has died of the disease five days after being discharged from a hospital in Wuhan.
Li Liang passed away during post-recovery quarantine in Wuhan, Hubei Province after suffering respiratory obstruction and failure. The cause of death was novel coronavirus.
It was on February 12 when Li Liang was discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for 13 days. After he showed normal temperature for more than three days and tested negative on two consecutive days, he was discharged from hospital.
The patient was then put under quarantine at a hotel used for observing recovered patients. But days later, he was rushed to hospital and passed away despite all rescue efforts.
Hospitals have now started to delay discharging recovered patients after city officials issued an order. According to The Paper, this comes after a number of recovered patients had tested positive again.
A Chinese resident who recovered from coronavirus tested positive again. He reportedly went back to hospital after reading stories about other discharged patients being infected again.
Another discharged patient tested positive ten days after being discharged from hospital. This sparked fears that other recovered coronavirus patients may still carry the killer virus.
Some experts suspected that medics hadn’t given the patient accurate tests before discharging him from hospital.
Coronavirus has infected at least 98,000 and killed over 3,300. Outside China, the worst-affected countries are South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
One internet user commented: “I hate to draw up hypothesis but is it possible he got reinfected with a new virus which took advantage his weaken state of being. Or was it the stronger version L virus that ended his life. We are still waiting for more information and explanation.”
Another wrote: “No need to panic, however keep updated and informed. Indeed, this is worrying to the extent it illustrates what we don’t know about the virus. Each day brings more knowledge. Keep safe everyone, and remember were British.”
A third added: “I wonder if this virus is able to lurk in the body even after “recovery”, like chicken pox that stays on as shingles… and if you are run down, comes back.point 262 |
Or, does it catch second breath like in case of the first British patient, Connor Reed (25), who had it in Wuhan in end of Nov 2019 and gave his personal account here yesterday.point 144 | ”point 147 | 1
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