COVID-19: Negative result no longer required to discharge patients – NCDC TopStories FridayFeeling FridayThoughts
A negative laboratory test result of COVID-19 patients is no longer required for such patients to be discharged, a Nigerian official has said.
“There have been new science emerging about the duration of infectivity of individual patients. It led to the WHO issuing new clinical guidelines. According to the NCDC DG, the new guideline is based on new data from Singapore “that RNA detected beyond 10 days is no longer infectious as no viable virus is grown by viral culture.”
The agency also said it was considering home treatment for patients also as a means of decongesting the treatment centres.
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