COVID-19 Patients Who Tested Positive After Recovery Didn’t Pass Virus to Others

South Korean nurses wearing protective gear arrive for their shift to care for patients infected with the CCP virus at Keimyung University Daegu Dongsan Hospital in Daegu on April 29, 2020. Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images

Patients who recovered from the Wuhan virus but later tested positive weren’t infectious, researchers in South Korea found.

Some 450 patients have tested positive in South Korea for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which originated in China last year, after recovering. The virus causes a disease known as COVID-19.