Recovered coronavirus patients are testing positive again. Can you get reinfected?
Updated 0548 GMT (1348 HKT) April 18, 2020
In South Korea, health officials are trying to solve a mystery: why 163 people who recovered from coronavirus have retested positive, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
The same has been recorded in China, where some coronavirus patients tested positive after seeming to recover, although there are no official figures.
That raises the question: can you get reinfected with coronavirus?
Caught in a superpower struggle: the inside story of the WHO's response to coronavirus
Caught between the US and China, the world health body has been unable to enforce compliance or information sharing
When a pandemic strikes, the world’s leading experts convene – physically or virtually – in a hi-tech chamber in the basement of the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization.
It is called the “strategic health operations centre”, or SHOC, an appropriately urgent acronym for a place where life and death decisions are taken, and it is where critical choices were made in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
“We’re mostly like a 1950s, never-been-upgraded place, except for the SHOC room, which was built with all the screens everywhere and the desks with computers that rise up. The whole thing does look like something that Hollywood set up, imagining a pandemic,” a WHO official said.
Concerns over Saudi princess after warnings detention in notorious prison ‘could lead to my death’
Family friends worry Princess Basmah could contract coronavirus while in jail without charge
Borzou DaragahiInternational Correspondent
Concerns have been raised about a prominent member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family after claims she was being detained without charge in a notorious prison used to house al-Qaeda militants.
In a series of tweets published on her verified Twitter account late on Thursday, Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud said her health was failing inside a maximum security prison near Riyadh.
“I am currently being arbitrarily held at al-Ha’ir prison without criminal, or otherwise any, charges against my person,” her tweet said. “My health is deteriorating to an extent that is [severe] and that could lead to my death.”
India's treatment of Muslims amid coronavirus is almost 'genocidal,' activist Arundhati Roy claims
Novelist and activist Arundhati Roy has said the Indian government is exploiting COVID-19 to ramp up its suppression of Muslims. She compared the government tactic to one used by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Political activist Arundhati Roy accused the Indian government on Friday of exploiting the coronavirus outbreak to inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims.
She told DW that this alleged strategy on the part of the Hindu nationalist government would "dovetail with this illness to create something which the world should really keep its eyes on," adding that "the situation is approaching genocidal."
'We're starving to death': City of Maracaibo symbolises Venezuela's collapse
Romeo LANGLOIS|
The western city of Maracaibo used to be Venezuela's affluent oil capital. But today, it's a place of hardship and hunger. Facing hyperinflation, corruption, penniless public services, crime and chronic shortages, the city has become a symbol of the country's wider economic collapse. Eating has become a luxury. Due to a lack of medical care, the lives of children, the elderly and those with chronic diseases are slowly slipping away. In this 26-minute documentary, our reporter Roméo Langlois bring us a heart-wrenching account of the depths of human suffering.
Coronavirus: Japan doctors warn of health system 'break down' as cases surge
Doctors in Japan have warned that the country's medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases.
Emergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say.
One ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus symptoms was turned away by 80 hospitals before he could be seen.
Japan, which initially appeared to have the virus under control, passed 10,000 confirmed cases on Saturday.
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