THE QUESTION. In Japan as in China, the announcement a few weeks ago of people infected twice with Covid-19 has considerably increased the panic about the epidemic. In Osaka, a 40-year-old woman tested positive in late January. Then negative after his supposed recovery on February 5. On February 21, the quarantine was still showing symptoms and was again tested positive by his doctor. Chinese media, Caixin Global, said in early February that 14% of recovered people had been tested positively in later tests. What is it really ? Is it possible to catch coronavirus twice?
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For Bruno Lina, a researcher from Claude-Bernard-Lyon-1 University at the International Center for Research on Infectious Diseases, these cases of presumed reinfection are not enough to prove that one can catch the coronavirus twice. According to him, a number of patients develop "prolonged viral shedding"
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