Patients may still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear: Study

Coronavirus can live up to eight days after symptoms sisappear

Amid global coronavirus outbreak, researchers claim that half of the patients they treated for mild Covid-19 infection still had the nCoV for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared explaining why controlling the spread of the disease has been difficult.

The research, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, assessed 16 patients with Covid-19, who were treated and released from the Treatment Center of PLA General Hospital in Beijing between January 28 and February 9, 2020.

In the study, researchers, including Indian-origin scientist Lokesh Sharma from Yale University in the US, analysed samples collected of throat swabs taken