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  • Italy. The 4-year-old girl, a prisoner of the coronavirus: "Her swabs have been positive for four months"

The case of a 4-year-old girl, a prisoner of the coronavirus for several months, has targeted people whose test result is a "weak positive for Covid-19" . These infected people face long periods of solitary confinement, but what else does it imply? Pierangelo Clerici , President of the Italian Association of Clinical Microbiologists and of the Italian Federation of Societies of Scientific Laboratories , answers the main questions.

What does it mean that a swab is weakly positive? It involves detecting a positive swab in the molecular test of parts of the virus genome: the swab amplifies the

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