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Coronavirus nightmare of China’s ‘recovered’ patients
- Sixth in a series exploring the different experiences of Covid-19 survivors from around the world
- Behind the statistics are stories like Adele Jiang’s, a 24-year-old university student who has repeatedly tested positive for Covid-19
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For Adele Jiang, one of mainland China’s “recovered” Covid-19 patients, the past two months have been a nightmare.
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After repeatedly testing positive for the disease caused by the new coronavirus, she is currently in quarantine at a hotel in the central Chinese province of Hubei, where she hopes a third test before Sunday will return a negative result so that she can finally go home.
Jiang, 24, a master’s student at Wuhan University, in Hubei’s provincial capital, was admitted to hospital twice, and placed in isolation a further two times, after retesting positive for the virus within 14 days of being discharged. Eight members of her family have also been infected.
She is now waiting out the remainder of her latest quarantine period in a hotel at her hometown Xiaogan, a city 60km (37 miles) west of Wuhan, ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak.
“I hope I can be given a certain date to be released, instead of doing tests again and again which have made me confused and upset,” Jiang said.
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