COVID-19 PATIENTS CAN NOT INFECT OTHERS AFTER 11 DAYS OF CONTRACTING THE DISEASE - RESEARCHERS
Coronavirus patients can not infect others after 11 days of contracting the disease, a study found.
Results from this experimental study states that an infected person only becomes contagious around two days before symptoms begin to appear.
The covid-19 patients remain contagious for the next 7-10 days after they start manifesting the symptoms of the disease, which includes having a high temperature and a continuous cough.
Therefore, covid-19 can not be isolated or cultured after day 11, according to researchers.
Scientists from Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine examined 73 patients with coronavirus.
They looked at whether the bug could be passed from them to someone else.
Positive tests in patients that still had symptoms after two weeks could be picking up sections of the bug that cannot pass the virus on to someone else.
The authors wrote: 'Based on the accumulated data since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the infectious period of [coronavirus] in symptomatic individuals may begin around two days before the onset of symptoms, and persists for about seven to ten days after the onset of symptoms.'
They added: 'Active viral replication drops quickly after the first week, and viable virus was not found after the second week of illness.'
The UK has recorded 118 more covid-19 deaths, the lowest since the lockdown was enforced on March 23rd.
The total number of covid-19 deaths in the UK is now 36,793.
Scientists are optimistic that their research on the disease's ability to spread could help hospitals figure out when to send admitted patients home.
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