Ivan Hung was commenting on the results of the first 128 thousand samples, which identified just two new patients. Out of six people uncovered, four were previous patients with low viral loads. Chuang Shuk-kwan, from the Centre for Health Protection, said the low virus load in the four recovered patients meant they would not infect anyone else. So you actually need probably [to be] completing the first round, reaching about a million," Hung said. Then we can tell that - you know - it's definitely very clean and you can actually relax infection control measures."

Source: The Standard September 04, 2020 01:07 UTC