Two (2) recovered patients from COVID-19 tested positive again of the coronavirus.

This is confirmed by Department of Health (DOH) spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire who made the announcement on Sunday, April 27, 2020 that the two (2) patients were admitted at Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City and they had been discharged from the hospital. But report said the two (2) were tested again after two weeks while in their home quarantine.

In the third re-test conducted by the health authorities it says that one of the two (2) patients tested negative but result of other patient is yet to arrive.

Vergeire said that our experts continue study about the possibility of reactivation or reinfection of the COVID-19 infected patient after recovery. She also clarifies that the recovered COVID-19 patient is possibly test positive again after tested negative. This is in the case that that tests pick up on the remnant which is no longer infectious. In this case does not necessarily mean that the patient is infected again but maybe the virus within is reactivating.

“Patuloy po ang pagaaral ng DOH at ng ating mga eksperto tungkol sa posibilidad ng reinfection o reactivation ng COVID-19,”

“Wala pa pong sapat na ebidensiya upang magbigay ng pahayag dito sa ngayon,” Vergeire said.

However, prior to this incident the World Health Organization (DOH) previously clarified that there is no guarantee for the COVID-19 patients that recovered with antibodies already within the patients are protected from a second infection.