Both Guangzhou and Wuhan reported that after being released from hospitals patients who had healed from the coronavirus infection had re-tested as COVID-19 positive.
On February 25, Li Yueping, Director of the ICU at Guangzhou No 8 People’s Hospital said, when they conducted a follow-up with the patients who had their coronavirus healed, they found 13 patients tested positive for coronavirus again.
On March 4, a supervisor from the Jiang’an Modular Hospital at Wuhan told The Paper that Jiang’an Modular Hospital issued an emergency notice, stating that, according to the Wuhan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, recently quite a few patients who had their coronavirus cured re-developed the virus and therefore were hospitalized again.
A supervisor at Guobo Modular Hospital in Wuhan, in his phone interview with Jiemian Media, said, “The municipal CDC issued a notice to temporarily stop releasing cured patients to go home. The notice was sent to all modular hospitals in Wuhan. In the past, my modular hospital released 30 or 40 patients a day.”
The National Health Commission also changed its policy on the “Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Retreatment Plan (Trial Version 7)” from “14 days of self-health monitoring” to “14 days of quarantine management and health monitoring” for the patients released from hospitals.
1. Excerpt in Chinese:
在2月25日召开的广州市政府新闻发布会上，针对近期出现的几例出院病人测试复阳问题，广州市第八人民医院感染病中心ICU主任李粤平表示，他们在对出院病例随访时发现，病人有13例，密切接触者有104例。李粤平介绍，虽然病例的检测呈阳性，但从技术上很难区分是活病毒还是死病毒。所以对于病毒的防控，还需要严防死守。
Source: Stock Times, February 25, 2020
http://news.stcn.com/2020/0225/15682758.shtml
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
3月4日晚，武汉市江岸方舱医院一名负责人向澎湃新闻证实，江岸方舱医院发布了一份《紧急通知》：根据市防疫指挥部最新通报，近期出院患者中复发者较多，导致患者重新入院治疗。
Source: The Paper, March 4, 2020
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_6343137
3. Excerpt in Chinese:
武汉市汉阳国博方舱医院负责人在接受界面新闻电话采访时透露，目前已经接到武汉市疫情指挥部通知，暂停办理病人出院程序。
该名负责人还在电话中透露，“市疫情指挥部下发了通知暂停执行病人出院，这个通知是针对整个武汉市所有方舱医院的。在此之前，我们方舱每天有30、40名患者出院。”
随后，记者与多家方舱医院取得联系，证实了有方舱医院已经暂停办理患者出院。“但暂停时间不会太久。而且我们在此之前就一直有查血的流程。”有方舱医院负责人表示。
Source: Jiemian Media, March 5, 2020
https://www.jiemian.com/article/4069033.html
4. Excerpt in Chinese:
《新型冠状病毒肺炎诊疗方案（试行第七版）》要求，为加强对出院患者的健康管理和隔离，将“应继续进行14天自我健康状况监测”改为“应继续进行14天的隔离管理和健康状况监测”。
Source: China Business Network, March 5, 2020
https://www.yicai.com/news/100534800.h