A woman who was tested negative for coronavirus on eight occasions has been diagnosed with the killer bug after 17 days of quarantine.
The 56-year-old hotel worker from Sichuan Province, China, was put into isolation in early February after being in touch with a coworker who carried the virus.
While the woman tested negative for coronavirus eight times after being quarantined, she was diagnosed with the killer virus 17 days after being exposed to it according to Sichuan Online.
As the paper reported, the hotel worker was put into isolation for three weeks, throughout which multiple tests came back negative, after it was found that one of her colleagues whom she’d been in touch with was diagnosed with coronavirus.
Previously, the authorities have expressed their fears over the existing 14-day coronavirus quarantine, claiming that the period isn’t long enough after a senior man needed almost a month to develop symptoms.
According to the reports of the local government in the province of Hubei, a 70-year-old man who got infected with the novel coronavirus only showed symptoms 27 days later.
As the government explained, the man visited his infected sister in Shennongjia, Hubei, on January 24. It wasn’t until recently, however, that he began showing symptoms of the infection.
Following this discovery, experts fear that the existing WHO-approved quarantine period might be too short and that people completing the 14-day period could still infect others provided they carry the killer virus.
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