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Study Finds 14-Day Quarantine May Miss 10% of COVID-19 Cases

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Study Finds 14-Day Quarantine May Miss 10% of COVID-19 Cases

A new study published in the Science Advances journal has just revealed that sometimes quarantine for 14 days is not enough to detect the virus in a person. Yet this is a protocol at the heart of the strategies adopted by many countries in the fight against coronavirus.

The study conducted by researchers from Peking University showed that "10% of infected people could develop the disease after more than 14 days. Zhou Xiaohua, co-author of this study, suggests that the authorities go beyond the 14-day quarantine, "especially when there are a large number of cases," reports 2M.ma.

The study looked at 1,084 positive patients who left the city of Wuhan, in central China, between January 19 and January 23, when the city was placed in quarantine. None of the patients had shown symptoms before leaving Wuhan. The team found that "5 to 10% of cases could not show symptoms for more than 14 days," the same source specifies.

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