Beijing bolsters efforts to identify false negatives in Covid-19 testing; woman tested negative 4 times before postive confirmation

BEIJING - Beijing health authorities have stepped up testing efforts to identify false negatives from Covid-19 tests after a woman tested negative four times before her infection was finally confirmed.

On June 3, the patient visited the Xinfadi market, where the latest flare-up of the virus in the Chinese capital emerged. On June 14, she was quarantined as a close contact of a confirmed case. On June 16, she developed symptoms and was transferred to a hospital, according to Pang. Wang Guiqiang, a director of the infectious disease department at the No. 1 Hospital affiliated with the Peking University, said at the same press conference that false negative results from nucleic acid tests can sometimes happen due to invalid sampling in the process.

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