Stool swab of 6-year-old boy tests positive

A cured novel coronavirus pneumonia case, a 6-year-old boy, tested positive after his stool swab was taken and he was sent to Haihe Hospital in Tianjin after being discharged from a hospital in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, for 10 days, on Feb 29.

Before he was sent to the Haihe Hospital, his mother had a runny nose for three days in Tianjin and was diagnosed as a suspect case of the NCP.

Until March 1, the child's mother has not been confirmed as new NCP case.

In recent days, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Hainan provinces and the municipality of Chongqing have seen several discharged patients with their stool or throat sample test showing positive.

However, experts from the National Health Commission noted that to date the discharged patients whose throat or anal swab test turn positive again have not yet infected others.

The positive anal sample test has alerted medical authorities in Shanghai.

Shanghai medical authorities have announced to revise their treatment plan to add swab sample test from the previously single test -- the nucleic acid throat test, recently.

In March 2003, in Amoy Gardens, a community of Hong Kong which was severely hit by SARS, the epidemic happened because a SARS patient's stools were flushed through the pipelines which were discovered as having chinks. 

The leaked out virus in stools formed aerosol infected residents in the community.