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To: elmatador who wrote (5289)	4/14/2020 3:47:44 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13803

So called "immunity" or "herd immunity" may be a False Hope More than 100 "recovered coronavirus patients" in South Korea test positive for Covid-19 again coupled with disease symptoms South Korea reported today that at least 116 people initially cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. It came as officials suggested they would soon look at easing strict recommendations aimed at preventing new outbreaks - and the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed two million on Monday. South Korea reported only 25 new cases overall on Monday, but the rise in 'reactivated' patients has raised concerns as the country seeks to stamp out infections. Officials are still investigating the cause of the apparent relapses. But Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), has said the virus may have been reactivated rather than the patients being re-infected. Some experts offer hope that faulty tests may be playing a role, or remnants of the virus may still be in patients' systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others. The 116 cases is more than double the 51 such cases South Korea reported a week earlier. South Korea plans to send 600,000 coronavirus testing kits to the United States on Tuesday in the first such shipment following a request from U.S. President Donald Trump, whose attention was drawn to shipments of tests being purchased by Los Angeles. South Korea has called on residents to follow strict social distancing until at least April 19, but as cases have dropped and the weather has improved, a growing number of people have been flouting the guidelines. At a meeting on disaster management on Monday, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the government would soon be looking to loosen the guidelines, which call for people to stay at home, avoid social gatherings of any type, and only go out for essential reasons. 'Later this week, we plan to review our intensive social distancing campaign that we have carried out so far and discuss whether we will switch to routine safety measures' he said. The country has over 10,000 confirmed cases of the virus and has recorded 217 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University data. While recent recovery rates of the virus are promising, it does not mean that those who have been infected with coronavirus are not still at risk, as experts believe having the virus once does not mean you cannot get sick from it again.