Wait three days longer before exposing yourself to others. Wait three days longer before interacting in any way with others. If you have more severe Covid-19 or a weak immune system then you could remain contagious for longer than 10 days. Therefore, a “replication-competent” virus means a virus that is able to reproduce and thus infect someone. Finding virus RNA is not necessarily the same as finding whole live versions of the virus.

Source: Forbes July 27, 2020 05:56 UTC