{"id":17081,"date":"2020-04-11T22:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/who-looks-into-report-of-covid-patients-testing-positive-after-negative-tests"},"modified":"2020-04-11T22:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:54:35","slug":"who-looks-into-report-of-covid-patients-testing-positive-after-negative-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17081","title":{"rendered":"WHO looks into report of Covid patients testing positive after negative tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from South Korea say some patients had tested positive while being considered for discharge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is looking into reports of some Covid-19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday South Korean officials reported that 91 patients thought to have been cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a briefing that the virus may have been \u201creactivated\u201d rather than the patients being re-infected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/who-looks-into-report-of-covid-patients-testing-positive-after-negative-tests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from South Korea say some patients had tested positive while being considered for dischargeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is looking into reports of some Covid-19 pati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,222,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-south-korea","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}